For me, it’s CAD software. FreeCAD is trash (sorry, lovers). Fusion360 is honestly the best out there for free. The “almost there” app is Shapr3D, but fuck $40/m.

And yes I’ve tried all the others not listed here.

  • sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    Pandas/Polars is all I need in a Jupyter notebook to replace Excel. Its not even a contest if you know some python for doing any real work.

    I concede Excel has a lower bearer to entry for teams composed of mixed technical abilities.

    • fartsparkles@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 days ago

      So much this. If you find yourself writing nested formulas e.g.

      =IF(A1>=90, "A", IF(A1>=80, "B", IF(A1>=70, "C", "F")))

      Do yourself a favour and switch to Python and Pandas. You can do so much more, so much faster, and so much simpler. And at the end of an your code, you can pd.to_excel() to spit out your dataframe as an xlsx.

    • Feyd@programming.dev
      7·
      1 day ago

      Also duckdb. Realizing I could do SELECT ... FROM 'arbitrary-file.xlsx' was a wondrous occasion