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Back in 2012, I used Data Nitro / Iron Spread. It enabled running Python on spreadsheets.

My problem back then with the tool was that it sat between chairs. It was impossible to run Python entirely, as it only ran a subset of libraries and did not have a package manager, and it required thinking about cells, as is the case with Excel formulas.

As a result, I could only use some of my Python codebase and not collaborate with other Excel users who were not Python experts. We ended up reverting to Excel formulas or VBA.

I'm curious about who is the target user for Neptyne. Is it Python developers and data scientists who want to do some spreadsheet work?



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