Excel is seriously killing humanity. No version control, no debugging, brittle support for automation. Excel, to me, is the single most obvious sign that we must get rid of the giant tech monopolies to re-enable innovation in software.
Umm, put your excel file in git repo if you really need to? That's like saying C++ doesn't have version control.
>no debugging
Debug what exactly? If you have vb scripts, then yes you can debug. If you just have formulas.. there is literally nothing to debug.
>brittle support for automation
Ok, but that's also kind of the point. Excel should not be some insane thing where people do way too much. It's a spreadsheet with formulas- and that is what it's goal is. People who use excel with thousands of lines of VB code should literally be using something else 99% of the time.
>Excel, to me, is the single most obvious sign that we must get rid of the giant tech monopolies to re-enable innovation in software.
There is basically nothing to "innovate" related to excel. It's exactly what is needed. If you want to innovate then write your own damn spreadsheet that does some new magic you think of.
Why are you trying to overcomplicate a simple 2d spreadsheet?
>Excel is seriously killing humanity
Excel is doing the exact opposite. You are a fool saying that- excel is so freaking simple yet so powerful. Sounds like you might live in academic lala land and have never worked at a business where there are a billion different types of things to do and simple spreadsheets can generally cover most cases.
You're interesting when talking about Excel's deficiencies. But you ruin your comment with talk about "killing humanity" and "giant tech monopolies". HN is not a place to get swept away by emotion.
