>IT people hate Excel because normal people can get work done
This is arguably more a business problem, but there's real issues when people coming/going and then having to get familiar with dozens-hundreds of spreadsheets. Maybe if they're good at Excel, they just pick it up easily, I dunno, but I've rarely seen stuff like confluence documentation and edit history and other supporting docs for spreadsheets that are critical to the company. It kinda feels like they rely more on tribal knowledge than devs.
Nothing about our languages or tools constrains devs to necessarily do this too, we've just got a culture of doing that stuff because we know how awful life is without it. Maybe it's different for spreadsheet people though. I could just keep the business code on a single hard drive and deploy by copy-pasting over a network share or through email, but you'd rightly call me mad.
This is arguably more a business problem, but there's real issues when people coming/going and then having to get familiar with dozens-hundreds of spreadsheets. Maybe if they're good at Excel, they just pick it up easily, I dunno, but I've rarely seen stuff like confluence documentation and edit history and other supporting docs for spreadsheets that are critical to the company. It kinda feels like they rely more on tribal knowledge than devs.
Nothing about our languages or tools constrains devs to necessarily do this too, we've just got a culture of doing that stuff because we know how awful life is without it. Maybe it's different for spreadsheet people though. I could just keep the business code on a single hard drive and deploy by copy-pasting over a network share or through email, but you'd rightly call me mad.