Excel’s built-in Python support should simplify the workflow. According to Microsoft, users can add Python code to a spreadsheet without leaving the Excel interface.

This takes it a few steps farther. Redditor crruzi, (as found by Polygon) a programmer learning Visual Basic for Applications, decided to make an XCOM game with Microsoft Excel.

The resulting spreadsheets can be packaged and distributed as is, although other users will need both Excel and an instance of Python with Xlwings to use them. Some examples are available as ...

Redditor crruzi, however, managed to build a fully-functioning XCOM game that plays inside of Excel. We're not talking about something basic and barely functional.

Parabola raises $2.2 million to simplify programming for employees stuck in Excel all day Matthew Lynley 7:00 AM PDT · May 22, 2018 ...

Microsoft MSFT introduces Python support in Excel, enabling advanced data analysis, The Verge reports. The integration is accessible directly from the Excel ribbon, eliminating the need for ...

Microsoft is introducing the ability to use Python code directly in Excel spreadsheets. It's called Python in Excel, and it's being made available as a Public Preview for Microsoft 365 Insiders ...

Civilization Recreated in Microsoft Excel The person, known only as ‘Solly’ has revealed their game design with a video showing the game running within Microsoft Excel.

Beyond Excel, the team also took inspiration from tools and languages like Pascal, Mathematica and Miranda, a functional programming language developed in the 1980s.