At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings a new JavaScript API to the venerable spreadsheet app. With this new API, developers will be able to create custom ...

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Excel developers will be able to create their own add-ins or update existing ones to use the JavaScript API. Bloomberg is using Microsoft’s new JavaScript API in Excel. Image: Microsoft ...

I mean, what could possibly go wrong? Last December, Microsoft published a Dev Center article that talked about using the new Excel JavaScript API to create add-ins for Excel 2016.

The questions plaguing users of Microsoft Excel—JavaScript support, slow Mac development cycles, the lack of Easter eggs—all apparently come down to one thing: prioritizing developer resources ...