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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you know how both of those compare with Google Sheets?

[–] elscallr 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sheets is capable enough for the average person but a business is always going to want to use Excel because it's the industry standard.

I can't remember the last time I actually needed a spreadsheet for anything other than looking at a bunch of tabular data, but I'm a programmer so I'm not the standard spreadsheet user.

[–] TheBat 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm a programmer so I'm not the standard spreadsheet user.

But then what do you use for database???

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then what do you use for database???

Probably a database.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] elscallr 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

JSON files that get committed to a git repo, obviously. They're in a private repository in GitHub so that takes care of security and resiliency, two birds with one stone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

At first I was certain this was going to be sarcasm.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you are an accountant, then it’s your beast of burden.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Accountant here. I prefer libreoffice calc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Gotcha, that makes sense. Thanks for your reply!

[–] bemenaker 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing compares to excel. There are spreadsheets, and there is excel. The world runs on excel, and for a damn good reason. Also, excel runs the world, literally.

[–] Corran1138 4 points 1 year ago

So you’re telling me that Excel is very good at stuff?