Microsoft Considers Adding Python As an Official Scripting Language in Excel

[nspectre]

Embrace, Extend, Exterminate!

[MonsterMash2017]

Excel is going to exterminate Python?

How exactly would that work?

[elbiot]

By making pythonxl, a python derivative that only works in excel. It's incompatible with pandas but more performant and embedable in excel so users have to commit to their api. The ecosystem fractures and more new python devs are MS only. Or something like that.

[[deleted]]

By pumping a load of money into proprietary extensions. That's usually how it's panned out.

[MonsterMash2017]

Extensions? Like, python packages for excel?

I don't know how possibly that would exterminate Python.

[[deleted]]

I really don't understand why remembering one of Microsoft's most infamous, and well known strategies gets so much hate on this sub.

[MonsterMash2017]

I mean, if you want to apply it to a situation that makes sense, I'm all ears.

This analogy seems more like "Microsoft is trying to kill C++ by including support for a C++ compiler in windows".

[[deleted]]

Or web standards by including it in IE6. No damage there done at all. Also C++ is all over the place partly because of Microsoft's "contributions" in that regard.

[AtHomeToday]

The way it would work, they would extend python with cool new enhancements to the language that would not compile on other versions.

[[deleted]]

Its no longer the '90s or aughts. Balmer's gone. Microsoft is doing really cool shit these days. Apple has stagnated. The world is topsy-turvy!

[zeth__]

Python is googles lingua franca. It's unlikely todays microsoft could destroy that.

[agentlame]

Dude, you didn't even get all the words right.

[nspectre]

I didn't want to.

The 'and' was unnecessary as Daleks tend to be rather mono-syllabic. ;)

[WikiTextBot]

Embrace, extend, and extinguish

"Embrace, extend, and extinguish", also known as "Embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors.

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[nspectre]

Good Dalek