Before long you'll have a different LLM embedded in each of a series of cells, and they'll each have an opinion on what you are doing elsewhere in the sheet, and your One True Trusted Overview LLM (named OTTO) will survey them and take a vote and get back to you.

Linux can run on Excel, but not Excel on Linux.

This is the insanity that I miss.

Next step is to get Doom working on it :-)

Would this same trick work on LibreOffice Calc?

Probably not. It calls out to a DLL library for most of the work. One that, unfortunately, is 32bit.

Libre Calc can load 64bit Excel plugins, but not 32bit (at the moment).

Any practical use cases come to mind? Could you actually interact from Excel cells with Linux userspace, e.g. running a cell's value through a bash script as if applying a formula?

“ The emulator is built as a seperate dll which is loaded by the VBA macro. The VBA macro calls the emulator in the dll and gets the output and writes it into the cells in the spreadsheet. ”

Not really in excel. Excel is just the console. Emulator is a native DLL

Excshell

Execell

Still funny

It runs on neither MacOS nor Excel cloud though, as it depends on a Windows DLL.

Microsoft 365 is the reason why the new add-in model is focused on Web technologies, and mostly deprecated going forward for new forward.

On the other hand, if you can get it to work in the new O365 architecture using whatever JS API they're exposing now, you can call it "cloud-based" or maybe even "serverless".

Wouldn't help with cloud of course, but there's WINE for macOS, isn't there? Or does that version of Excel not allow loading binary libraries such that you could hand it a DLL if WINE translated it?

mini-rv32ima is incredibly compact -- I imagine a translation to VBA might not be too hard.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible to run WINE in it, and thus another Excel inside that.

Can it run Lotus 1-2-3, though? https://github.com/taviso/123elf

I thought for a second this would be about the use of a spreadsheet as a general computation device.

Excel > Linux > Wine > Excel...to infinity?

I just posted the ‘doom on a lightning adapter’ story, and saw this in submissions. I’ll have to tip my hat to the better bizarre ‘X on Y’ post. You win this time, radeeyate.