Gneiss – A spreadsheet programming tool

This is cool because one of the most difficult things to do in these types of systems is represent context of a program at any given time: especially when most programs maintain their context using the stack (plus quite a few other abstractions depending on the programming methodology).

Using a spreadsheet as your "context" is one way to solve this problem.

I got to see Kerry present this work at UIST last year and it was very cool. The spreadsheet provides a great visual way to interact with both the API you're pulling data from and the web app you're ultimately providing it to. With a bit of hierarchical spreadsheet support (take a look at Eirik Bakke's work from CSAIL), this could easily replace all API documentation with examples you can play with instead of protocol descriptions.

Is there some dl link or is that some sort of autopromotion pitch ?

I'm glad you asked ;)

https://github.com/robzyb/velis-gplv3/blob/master/velis/veli...