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I'm excited to see more players in this space though, all the standards are open and there are decent libraries with decent licenses that exist. A lightweight LibreOffice alternative would be neat and something truly open source and embeddable (MIT) is great.
cool project, but I don't particularly like "The democratization of spreadsheets" as a catchphrase. Like, what does that even mean? If by "democratization" you mean like, more able to be used, well anyone can go download LibreOffice or for the web use CryptPad's Spreadsheets, and if you mean that it's more open, well both of those are open source. Is this project specifically run democratically or something? It just…
https://github.com/ironcalc/ironcalc.github.io/issues/14
As I said somewhere else I had really bad marketing skills. Maybe I should talk to someone who really knows what they are doing :)
The catchphrase was decided in 5 seconds when I was sending a proposal to the nlNet and stuck.
Thanks for the feedback!
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Where were you when I started writing my code ;_; I have also written a spreadsheet engine in Rust from scratch, for an app built with the iced GUI library! I'll take a deep dive through your repo and compare notes later this week. Congrats on the huge lift!!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37559371
Hey! This is my project! Amazed to see this here. I'll try to answer questions people might have
nice project ! and attempt to modernize the spreadsheet tech stack. be warned though, that the feature-set of the modern spreadsheet is gigantic, with tentacles in hundreds of nooks and corners. Any attempt to play catch-up is a losing proposition. Hence you could position it so as not to directly compete with excel - in areas that are new or emerging. trivia: js based https://ethercalc.net/ is in turn is derived fro…
If I were to go closed source, for instance, I think I loose 90% of my selling points.
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Where were you when I started writing my code ;_; I have also written a spreadsheet engine in Rust from scratch, for an app built with the iced GUI library! I'll take a deep dive through your repo and compare notes later this week. Congrats on the huge lift!!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37559371
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Thanks! There is not a detailed tracking of all Excel features. But we track: 1. Function implementations: https://github.com/ironcalc/IronCalc/labels/Functions 2. Dynamic arrays, defined names, pivot tables, ... Excel is huge we only aim at implementing a subset.
Exactly because Excel is huge it'd be nice to have such a detailed reference, grouped by type: functions, UI, scripting, built in analysis tools etc And some features could reduce pressure re compatibility in other areas. For example, if you had some kind of wasm plugin system, then people could easily write the lacking functions in their favorite language without having to wait for the core to add such a function.
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Thanks for your great work! I’d love to hear your thoughts on a recent “brainstorm” a few of us had here on HN about spreadsheets. How does this resonate with you? [1][2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42027356 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41970554
Hyperfiddle and Quadratic implement some of the items on your wishlist (richer data types, modern programming languages, working with arrays, better connectivity to data tools).
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I agree that the bullet points feel like ChatGPT output. Whether an LLM was involved or not, it's good practice nowadays to avoid that AI style as many are getting used to spotting it and frown about it.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'that AI style'. What are some examples?
* Gerund Adjective Noun (bold): (colon) text (non-bold).
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Already the format like this. Then plus points for sounding like an empty phrase that chatgpt likes. Eg from the heading "Addressing Unmet Needs" then bullet "Empowering SaaS Developers:" in bold.
It's hard to describe. If you use chatgpt a lot, you develop an intuition that has many components.
It’s a great ambition to replace Excel and many went down this path before. Congratulations to even attempting to achieve it and going this far to do it. Excel compatibility, when fully realized, will remove the major obstacle to adoption. Given the current stronghold Excel has on the market. Once that is achieved do you plan to offer a transition to more modern forms of calculations as vectors and arrays formula pan…
The reason for Excel compatibility is twofold:
* You can use your workbooks as the are * You don't need to learn a new tool
> do you plan to offer a transition to more modern forms of calculations as vectors and arrays formula panels together with frozen sheets of raw data and output?
So far, nothing beyond Excel's compatibility
Hey! This is my project! Amazed to see this here. I'll try to answer questions people might have
https://bossanova.uk/jspreadsheet/v4/ which is the open source version of
Serious question. I base a lot of work off the open source jspreadsheet. Curious about yours.