Excel is an extremely cool piece of software. As someone who spent the past two years of his life implementing a spreadsheet [1] (built to solve many of The issues with spreadsheets mentioned in this thread: data size limits, speed limits, and repeatability problems), it’s unbelievable how many different use cases are supported by just Excel.
One of the funnier Excel use cases I’ve seen in the wild, when talking to users, is someone who had implemented the game 2048 entirely within a spreadsheet (ofc VBA). And it wasn’t just for fun - they weren’t allowed to play games on their work computer, but they needed their daily gaming fix. If you can dream it, Excel can probably get it done…
I bet... if you use a column as a list of the wasd inputs (i.e. "w enter" records as an up move) you could get 2048 without VB. Maybe even without the new lambdas but it'd be significantly easier thanks to that. A new thing for the "I better not waste my time on this" list ;).
One of the funnier Excel use cases I’ve seen in the wild, when talking to users, is someone who had implemented the game 2048 entirely within a spreadsheet (ofc VBA). And it wasn’t just for fun - they weren’t allowed to play games on their work computer, but they needed their daily gaming fix. If you can dream it, Excel can probably get it done…
[1] https://trymito.io