Hey! This is my project! Amazed to see this here. I'll try to answer questions people might have
Where does the name come from?
IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
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Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
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It's running entirely on your browser unless you click share, download or import. The computation part is done in Rust compiled to wasm. Thank you for posting!
Yep, I've misunderstood, realized it after seeing mdaniel's comment. Thanks for making this in the first place! I saw IronCalc in the list of projects supported by NLnet and it grabbed my attention. By the way, if You don't mind me asking, how'd Tuta end up sponsoring IronCalc? It seems that lately they and Proton have been trying to expand their business away from just email. The fact that Tuta is interested in Iron…
Tuta sponsors by providing us with free email accounts, that's all. I reached out months ago, they liked the project and were kind enough to help us out with the email.
I haven't have talks with them about integrating IronCalc, but it is something that is on my mind.
Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
#23Hey! This is my project! Amazed to see this here. I'll try to answer questions people might have
Where does the name come from?
The first well known spreadsheet application was called VisiCalc[0] (the killer app!). The "Iron" side is because it is written in Rust and the domain was available.
Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
#24It's a cool project, but wow is the top of the page just absolute buzzword salad!
> The democratization of spreadsheets > Empowering Everyone with Advanced, Open-Source Spreadsheet Solutions
It's a really fast spreadsheet engine that runs entirely in the browser and is fully open source. That's all the sales pitch I'd need, but I'm a developer...
So, serious question: who is this kind of marketing targeting?
Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
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The function for asterisks and slashes is called from the functions for pluses and minuses. The result is that asterisks and slashes are evaluated before pluses and minuses. It's actually very easy to understand once you get the idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_descent_parser
I don't think a recursion should be involved in the parser. Shift-reduce may be an answer but it does not fix the problem either if you try to implement that. I would like to see real code rather than written homework pieces.
Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
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"backend" seemed to imply it was contacting some server, but https://github.com/ironcalc/ironcalc#early-testing claims (and the network tab confirms) it is just Rust compiled to wasm, no "backend" required MIT or Apache 2 (player's choice) if anyone else has grown deeply suspicious about any "open source" HN headlines of late
backend does not imply server to me, it implies software that does the calculating engine work and does not concern itself with display refresh.
Surely that's background not backend.
Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
#27Hey! This is my project! Amazed to see this here. I'll try to answer questions people might have
What keeps me in Excel 2007 is Goal Seek. I'm not sure how unusual I am, but would be interested in knowing:)
Thanks for the feedback, I will keep this on the back of my head. This and things like sensitivity analysis are not in our immediate roadmap, but this is the kind of thing that would be fairly easy to add. You can do it right now programmatically, of course.
Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
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Yep, I've misunderstood, realized it after seeing mdaniel's comment. Thanks for making this in the first place! I saw IronCalc in the list of projects supported by NLnet and it grabbed my attention. By the way, if You don't mind me asking, how'd Tuta end up sponsoring IronCalc? It seems that lately they and Proton have been trying to expand their business away from just email. The fact that Tuta is interested in Iron…
Tuta sponsors by providing us with free email accounts, that's all. I reached out months ago, they liked the project and were kind enough to help us out with the email. I haven't have talks with them about integrating IronCalc, but it is something that is on my mind.
Ah, I see. Best of luck with that!
There are a few projects where I'd love to see a modern spreadsheet implementation. CryptPad comes to mind. They use OnlyOffice, which is quite featurefull, but takes awhile to load and isn't as responsive.
Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
#29It's a cool project, but wow is the top of the page just absolute buzzword salad! > The democratization of spreadsheets > Empowering Everyone with Advanced, Open-Source Spreadsheet Solutions It's a really fast spreadsheet engine that runs entirely in the browser and is fully open source. That's all the sales pitch I'd need, but I'm a developer... So, serious question: who is this kind of marketing targeting?
I'm a software developer with extremely bad marketing skills...
This project targets both end spreadsheet users and developers. In its first an engine (a Rust crate) then a full fledged product.
FWIW, I'm over them moon this project is getting some traction :)
Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
#30Hey! This is my project! Amazed to see this here. I'll try to answer questions people might have
Great project. I particularly love the:
1) mit license 2) using plausible instead of Google analytics. Practically speaking, uBO is going to block both by default, but for non-tech users this is great. 3) appreciate how the app respects your pc when the web app is running in the background. Very low footprint, no random CPU spikes or anything.
Wish you guys the best.