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Excel is the original rapid application development tool. People do unholy things to get the job done with no code, or perhaps with just a smattering of VBA. These solutions can be brilliant in the moment but, long term, tend to end up brittle and hard to extend. Over the years there have been many approaches for extending Excel beyond formula soup and VBA. There is the excellent Excel-DNA, PyXLL, Microsoft’s own Office....

xllify is a platform I’ve released for creating custom Excel functions by describing what you need or pasting some existing formulas or VBA. The resulting functions get packaged into a ready-to-deploy Office Add-in for all versions of Excel, as well as an optional-extra native XLL build for Windows. Right now you can write your prompt for your functions in a browser or Excel add-in to iterate, debug and even manually code....