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IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

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Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

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Post by twojacobtwo »

nhatcher wrote: post #44
ericra wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you are curious, I just made the analytics public: https://plausible.io/ironcalc.com I think more than one folk in HN might be interested. All traffic is because of this post. I had no visitors as of today. This was work in progress :)

Sweet, it's basically data on HN users then.

Only 13.4% of HN readers use Firefox. For shame. But seriously, it's interesting that safari is top by quite a margin.

Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

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Post by buremba »

nhatcher wrote: post #39
iamthejuan wrote: post #34

I am genuinely looking forward for the success of this project. I am just wondering will this support scripting language like VBA for Microsoft Excel?

Thanks. I am thinking a lot about this recently. We will definitely support a scripting language, or rather several scripting languages. VBA won't be one of them, I think. I wouldn't want to create a language just for this. Maybe use a language like Lua or perhaps Rhai[0]. By design extending and embedding IronCalc should be very easy. Work in this direction will not start in the next 9 months though. [0]: https://gi…

It would also be pretty interesting to see a modular system where we can run Python scripts as well

Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

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Post by rsi_triad »

twojacobtwo wrote: post #71
nhatcher wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are curious, I just made the analytics public: https://plausible.io/ironcalc.com I think more than one folk in HN might be interested. All traffic is because of this post. I had no visitors as of today. This was work in progress :)

Sweet, it's basically data on HN users then. Only 13.4% of HN readers use Firefox. For shame. But seriously, it's interesting that safari is top by quite a margin.

* HN users who don’t block analytics

Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

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Post by hcarvalhoalves »

franga2000 wrote: post #24

It'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?

It shows the main focus is not the technology, but the fact spreadsheets are important and deserve a robust open source alternative.

Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

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Post by eointierney »

Congratulations, this is awesome. One of those "why hasn't someone done this already?" projects.

I can see this becoming transformative and superseding Excel, which is a bold claim to make. But this is compliant (with Excel), performant, extensible, free, and in-browser. This could easily become almost an emacs-level editor.

Think of the interfaces that could be built to this in this?

I'll be sharing this with every student I know.

And the name is a winner.

Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

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Post by lbotos »

twojacobtwo wrote: post #71
nhatcher wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are curious, I just made the analytics public: https://plausible.io/ironcalc.com I think more than one folk in HN might be interested. All traffic is because of this post. I had no visitors as of today. This was work in progress :)

Sweet, it's basically data on HN users then. Only 13.4% of HN readers use Firefox. For shame. But seriously, it's interesting that safari is top by quite a margin.

I assume that's mostly iphones?

Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

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Post by Nathanba »

franga2000 wrote: post #24

It'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 think using the word "democratization" is the main issue, how does that even make sense in software? Who is doing the voting? You just "vote" by forking...? I don't get it, you also "vote" by using Microsoft Excel.

Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

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Post by fsckboy »

bonoboTP wrote: post #49
fsckboy wrote: post #4

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backend does not imply server to me, it implies software that does the calculating engine work and does not concern itself with display refresh.

Backend is a general word, not limited to client-server or the web. You can have a rendering backend with various configurable choices, like in Matplotlib ( https://matplotlib.org/stable/users/explain/figure/backends.... ), or the deep learning library Keras has a choice between PyTorch, JAX and TensorFlow backends.

we're talking about a spreadsheet engine, the backend is not going to be the Xserver displaying it
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