how much?

I have used Typst as an alternative for spreadsheet use cases.

excel power users are developers

Amortized 0.

I spend more time telling others about uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock and ReVanced.

Well, ads shown, goal reached.

So does ReVanced YouTube

ReVanced has an integration for SponsorBlock, and SponsorBlock is also available for Firefox Android

what are your use cases and what's your scripting knowledge?

Super basic use cases, like having a CV in Word and a Budget Excel. But I switched to Onlyoffice now. I am not a huge fan of scripting in excel anyways.

> Not really possible in a systems level programming language like rust/zig/C. There really is only one address space for the process... and if you have the ability to manipulate it you have global variables.

doesn't imply you have to expose it as a global mutable variable

> Nope. Look, a lot of good people are still there. I personally also wish they would all leave and we all go elsewhere -- but that's not the present reality.

be the change you want to see

I am!

That's the other part of this that makes these naysayers insufferable; you can use more than one.

My twitter handle literally has my mastodon handle IN IT.

You wish all leave, leave