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.

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.

Excel might be the world's most widely used programming language; Microsoft is on a journey to turn it into a better and more powerful programming language, without losing what makes it Excel.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took to X/Twitter and announced AI copilot’s rollout in Microsoft Excel, which probably has been the world’s most used spreadsheet editor in the several decades since its ...