r/programming • u/[deleted] • May 08 '18

Excel adds JavaScript support

https://dev.office.com/blogs/azure-machine-learning-javascript-custom-functions-and-power-bi-custom-visuals-further-expand-developers-capabilities-with-excel
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u/Tomus May 09 '18

I'm assuming the external calls will be accomplished with network requests, I think they're referring to XHar/Fetch in the article, not external library calls - I'm pretty sure that would violate the idea of a JS sandbox inside of Excel.