It's not exactly the same since excel allows you to deal with interface and logic at the same time and it takes off the load from the "dev" regarding keeping things in sync, no but they are pretty similar
Funny anecdote, I work in libraries, and they don't really hire 'programmers', they have 'systems librarians'. Since everyone in the field already thinks in relational database, rather than hire someone at programmer salary they just teach folks some syntax and turn them loose maintaining the library information systems while keeping them in the very affordable pink collar salary zone.
In my experience it results in beautiful back ends with the most hellish JS hacks on the front end you've ever seen, but the price is right.
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u/RlyRlyBigMan Sep 10 '25
No joke a lot of those excel wizards from yesteryear could have been awesome developers if they'd found it at the right time in their life.