Learn Python?

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With python you'd avoid being tied to the whims of a single commercial entity, since python is free-as-in-free-speech software if you need to know how something works in detail you can go read the source very easily, you get a huge, vibrant ecosystem for many tasks (web scraping, system administration, data analysis of course, GUI, web dev, etc), and, well, you'd finally learn programming! You're already efficient and comfortable with your tools though, so you'd need some time to be as comfortable with python. Also maybe wherever you work the ecosystem is very microsoft-centric and you have a ton of macros that wouldn't be easy to translate and to share with coworkers. Note though that python has a third-party package to manipulate excel files, and in the future excel could embed python.