CellLVM: A proof-of-concept LLVM to Excel spreadsheet compiler

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Post by grungleshnorts » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 8:10 AM UTC

Re: CellLVM: A proof-of-concept LLVM to Excel spreadsheet compiler

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Post by ljlolel » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 6:36 AM UTC

Love this as a low level visual debugging tool.

What if you can compile down to Excellvm? Can see issues at a glance.

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Post by hashtag-til » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 8:19 AM UTC

Looking forward to the excel MLIR dialect. /s

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Post by eigenket » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 8:36 AM UTC

This is impressively cursed.

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Post by c0balt » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 9:18 AM UTC

Oh, so this is what they meant with "being proficient in Excel" /s

Though seriously quite a funny idea and I would love to see more of these projects. An excel to wasm compiler or similar might also be interesting.

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Post by HPsquared » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 9:49 AM UTC

Can it self-host?

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Post by netsec_burn » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 10:04 AM UTC

Well good thing Google doesn't count Google Sheets toward the overall Drive storage.

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Post by Devasta » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 10:17 AM UTC

For too long, web browsers have dominated the market for applications that are consumed by document readers, glad to see some competition at last.

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Post by robertknight » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 10:53 AM UTC

Related to this, I recommend Felienne Hermans' talks on Excel as a functional programming language - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yKf8TrLUOw.

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Post by kzrdude » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 11:09 AM UTC

How is the iteration triggered?