In August 2023, Python 3.12.0rc1 was released. Microsoft announced Python in Excel. The Python Software Foundation published its Annual Impact Report for 2023, and the Python ecosystem released new versions of several important projects, such as Django, Pydantic, and Flask.
Excel Python yay! Cloud interpreter boo! But overall yay! I am really excited to try this out. I run a bunch of data analysis and simulations. It will be very cool to streamline some of the heavy lifting python does while still being inside an excel file.
Turns out excel is just a really popular GUI toolkit