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ww520 on May 6, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio]

Yes. I believe the way Excel hosting other languages inside it as scripting addon is via the COM Automation Server interface again. The other language needs to implement as a COM Automaton Server. Excel then instantiates the other language's Automation Server as an embedded COM object and calls its interface, which can call the functions implemented with the language.

tinomaxgalvin on May 6, 2021 [–]

The approach used by pyxll is higher performance. It uses the Excel C API. Excel add-ons can be written as native DLLs known as XLLs.

ww520 on May 6, 2021 | [–]

Good to know.

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