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I'm surprised by how many things that aren't that difficult or novel end up on the front page. CSV related projects come to the fore every week.

I explored this a bit (based off of the javascript-based http://sheetjs.com/sexql/ ) but the biggest difficulty is that people use CSVs and excel files in completely different ways…

https://github.com/OfficeDev/Open-XML-SDK/pull/3 suggests that there are issues with use in mono

WebSQL is remarkably simple to use, works on the most popular browsers on mobile and desktop, and gives you the power of SQL. In contrast, IME indexed db felt like pulling teeth. T…

Substack (yes, that substack) discussed this recently: > a slick web page - this is very often (but not always) a sign of a library that put all of its time into slick marketing bu…

Is there any indication that the posted link was already submitted? I would have expected some sort of warning.

Excel supports 32 bit integers, which fit comfortably in IEEE754 doubles (there are 64 bit integers which cannot be exactly represented)

There is a good reason why no one has unseated excel: it's easy to build the really easy 80%, but the last 20% is incredibly difficult and time consuming.