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Re: Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 30, 2020, 6:27 AM UTC

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Re: Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet

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Post by bestouff » Thu, Jul 30, 2020, 6:50 AM UTC

nik736 wrote: post #8

franga2000 wrote: post #6

This is really impressive and all, but we already have a pretty good open source online spreadsheet editor by OnlyOffice and I can't help thinking where we could be if the (I imagine) pretty significant amount of work that went into this was put into improving an existing solution...

Luckysheet comes with the MIT license.

I can't see why it's an advantage.

Re: Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet

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Post by mebr » Thu, Jul 30, 2020, 6:51 AM UTC

A web-based spreadsheet, the code is under the MIT License, seems to have some (/many?) features of the commercial products.

Re: Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet

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Post by iCarrot » Thu, Jul 30, 2020, 6:57 AM UTC

bestouff wrote: post #12

nik736 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Luckysheet comes with the MIT license.

I can't see why it's an advantage.

I can't see why more options to choose from is not an advantage.

Re: Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet

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Post by jacobolus » Thu, Jul 30, 2020, 7:02 AM UTC

mebr wrote: post #13

A web-based spreadsheet, the code is under the MIT License, seems to have some (/many?) features of the commercial products.

Looks similar to every spreadsheet since Visicalc....

Re: Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet

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Post by tonyedgecombe » Thu, Jul 30, 2020, 7:03 AM UTC

sabellito wrote: post #2

Language files blank comment code ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JavaScript 142 54627 91825 243672 CSS 9 790 238 5908 HTML 2 10 1 43 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUM: 153 55427 92064 249623 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- without the demoData dir. that's nuts

Excel has 30 million lines of code, now that's nuts.

Re: Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv » Thu, Jul 30, 2020, 7:12 AM UTC

It looks really nice! But...

The main reason I tend to avoid Google Sheets is that they're slow. Slow to open, slow to update more complex sheets, slow if you have more of them open. In general, much worse overall experience than a desktop spreadsheet, especially if you're using Firefox.

So I was really hoping for something with the snappiness of EtherCalc (which is blazing fast!), just more elegant. I realize it's difficult to have both functionality and speed, so a maybe a system of plugins could be useful. Most of online business sheets I saw use just a few arithmetic functions, many people would be happy with just that.

Re: Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet

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Post by P4wl0w » Thu, Jul 30, 2020, 7:14 AM UTC

bestouff wrote: post #12

nik736 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Luckysheet comes with the MIT license.

I can't see why it's an advantage.

Compare the licenses and think again :)

Re: Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet

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Post by fakeyguy » Thu, Jul 30, 2020, 7:17 AM UTC

this is quite impressive. formulas, charts supported out of the box. does it support importing xlsx and exporting to xlsx or pdf?

Re: Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet

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Post by fakeyguy » Thu, Jul 30, 2020, 7:18 AM UTC

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #17

It looks really nice! But... The main reason I tend to avoid Google Sheets is that they're slow. Slow to open, slow to update more complex sheets, slow if you have more of them open. In general, much worse overall experience than a desktop spreadsheet, especially if you're using Firefox. So I was really hoping for something with the snappiness of EtherCalc (which is blazing fast!), just more elegant. I realize it's d…

thanks for this! I never knew something like Ether Calc existed!