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Cheers! Work stalled since having a baby a year ago, but I’m sure I’ll be able to return to it eventually.

The UI is implemented using Halogen, a front end library for PureScript. That handles redisplay when recalculation happens. That’s more like React or Elm. Rather, I mean exposing a…

I'll be adding this to Inflex ( https://inflex.io/ ), I have the design worked out on paper. (But I'll be open sourcing it first and releasing as a desktop app, and then get back t…

I follow https://documentation.divio.com/ > There is a secret that needs to be understood in order to write good software documentation: there isn’t one thing called documentation,…

Thanks for sharing. I just realized your use case could fit quite neatly into Inflex (my app, not open for signups, but has a “try” sandbox), a use case I never considered. I have …

In Inflex decimals are not floating point, they’re fixed precision. So 0.1+0.2=0.3 produces #true. You can try by hitting the Formula button here: https://inflex.io/try And you can…

Inflex ( https://inflex.io/ ) does this bidirectional editing: you can edit any data structure as either a graphical object or the associated code, and the other one updates approp…

I realized I left that open ended but I’ll touch on a few points that I think are relevant here; * There’s a language which is like Haskell/Elm/PureScript in terms of being purely …

I would add that any tool looking to replace Excel will be build on some very powerful but very primitive foundations, I’m order to compete with that flexibility. It’ll never be ab…

I’m trying my best to create such a product. What you’re describing is something that (1) amateur spreadsheeters can use, (2) the power users, and (3) programmers, will be able to …

My business is based in the UK which is compatible with EU’s GDPR, so it’s fine to be hosted there.

My reactive workspace tool aka spreadsheet replacement (Inflex) is SaaS, but I’ve also considered offering a completely downloadable tool for a one off price. I think if ever get a…

I switched from Azure to DigitalOcean to Hetzner. Reasons were as you stated, simpler cost model, simpler technology.

> Another thought along these lines: quite a lot of my spreadsheet use involves doing calculations on whole columns. This is really painful in Excel, where I have to manually selec…

Inflex is statically typed, it’s pretty much PureScript with more familiar-to-Excel syntax, with row types used for records and also polymorphic variants, which aren’t in PureScrip…

This in principle accurate, but the real story is less polished. If you look through the AirTable forums, you’ll see lots of cases where users are asking how to do a thing, and are…

See my app for an implementation of this.

It does have limited calc, but I tend to think of it as more of an afterthought. The scripting is “very incomplete” in the words of the author, consider e.g. https://github.com/aar…

I’ve also seen that there’s a whole sub industry of companies that build a platform on top of a spreadsheet by assuming a certain structure of the data. Aside from myself, Julia’s …

I think Excel fails when it comes to other natural types of data such as trees, graphs, even arrays or records. It’s terrible at all of them. It’s not relational, and it’s not indu…

While this seems like a relevant thread, I’ll drop in our app too. Our approach is wide enough that “reactive rich text” like Patera is a subset of our functionality. See our Twitt…