hosted excel with a computational DSL

i had a similar thought

i got to see today a fintech company where this limited subset of python has enabled business users to take responsibility for all kinds of really complex stuff by writing simpleeval snippets in a CMS -- so like, the marketing people define their own A/B tests using it

truly impressive multiplier on engineering effort

very cool

i still believe that engineers underestimate that ability for business users to do things like python

the core logic is not difficult; all the environmental stuff si

especially when it's just reduced to an expression language

if you can eliminate that

you can get people to do math

right

like excel

excel is a programming platform

that’s super cool that that is happening on the ground

totally homegrown CMS

fascinating

what org?

what’s an example of a business user doing something in this?

1) show this ad to everyone meeting the following conditions -- they write

(user.blah <= foo) or (account.balance < zip)

so good

and the library is so nice

using the ast

2) the headline on this ad should be (they have jinja templating on the snippets)

Hello, %user.name%

locked down by dfeault

whitelist stuff

etc

perfect

yeah, its brilliant. my jaw dropped.

it’s what you want