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The Economist stylized this as “tweets are appraised as speech, but punished as writing.”

I’m working on https://inflex.io/ which can achieve the data / logic separation of Improv, by putting functions in cells. But Improv isn’t an inspiration. Inflex is certainly close…

I mean if the value is imported as a decimal, then a sort by that field will sort as decimal. This might not be obvious if a system imports 23.53, 53.98 etc - a user would think it…

That’s a shrewd observation. Static types help with this somewhat. E.g. in Inflex, if I import some CSV and the string “00.10” as 0.1, then later when you try to do work on it like…

I think you shouldn’t try to replace a spreadsheet with yet another spreadsheet that just has one extra feature. Many, many start-ups have done that. They make some money, but it’s…

I see that it supports units in terms of scale - does it also prevent units that measure different things from being combined? E.g. 2 kg + 3cm (units mismatch) or 3$ * 7$ (two moni…

Airtable is strongly typed in the fields of the tables, but the expression language is not. It is my conclusion based on researching Airtable, that the decision to have well typed …

I commented elsewhere in this submission that I am working on a strongly typed spreadsheet. (Don’t want to spam my product link.) I do think that bringing new syntax to the table i…

I am working on a product which is pretty much exactly what you describe. I love spreadsheets but I wanted something that I wanted to actually program in right from the beginning t…

I like your work on Mito, and I feel like it’s the python answer to a project that I’m working on which is the equivalent but with Haskell, or rather a riff on Haskell to be more a…

SPJ has been coming at this from the angle of let’s add things to Excel because Excel itself is already established. This, in my opinion, is putting lipstick on a pig. The inputs a…

It’s my understanding that the main selling feature of AirTable is the hard coded views that they offer; calendars, kanban style planners, things like that. The slightly more struc…

> but waiting 5 minutes for a vlookup against a few hundred thousand records to complete because I need one single column in another sheet is maddening when it would take nearly no…

I’m working on a (very beta) product that hopes to address a subset of your complaints about spreadsheets. https://inflex.io/ Based on your phrasing you might have already heard of…

Someone said the problem of WhatsApp is network effects. Network effects are fine. Email benefits from network effects. The difference is that email is designed to be decentralized…

Not that, but Unison is one direct inspiration. I wrote a small overview here https://community.inflex.io/t/the-inflex-language/20

A paper that profoundly influenced my language design: “Programming with Polymorphic Variants” https://caml.inria.fr/pub/papers/garrigue-polymorphic_varian... And the earlier paper…

That may be a cultural difference. You may see the EU as having a "very lax work ethic", but in my experience working in the EU, they see America (and Britain) as having an unhealt…