Our team is currently working with an Excel document that uses visual basic to talk to an embedded system. We're talking reading memory locations in Excel.

That's pretty insane

@nblackburn there's specific cells that are used as "buffers" for the data. I really wish I could make this shit up.

@DoctorDalek Just be confident in he fact you can handle this, that aline is commendable.

@nblackburn confidence? That might be the funniest thing I've heard all week

Confession of a developer: I like Excel. It's, in my opinion, the most versatile piece of software ever made.

@DoctorDalek You got this, show that excel who's boss.

But... why?! 😨

@Lukas that is also one of its weaknesses. It's got so many functions that you will never use.

In some way it's pretty awesome.

I ain't even mad bruh!

The thing I really dislike in excel is that both data and computation are on the same place. You never know what is what until you go around every cell to check the content.

I would say it's potential is widely underused because of a lack of knowledge (how many people, even developers, know how to properly use pivot tables,...). I use it as a texteditor, database, analysing tool, to program simple functions...even to make a small business ERP system with stock management, CRM, dashboards, barcodescanners connected to it, automatic mailing, business intelligence,...and still learning :) Only the performance is pretty crap for larger datasets...@Charmgoggles