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IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

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Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

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A spreadsheet engine. It's a React app with a Rust backend, but it impressed me how snappy it was[0]. Of course, it's not nearly as feature rich as Google Sheets, not to mention Excel. [0]: https://app.ironcalc.com/

"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

Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

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A spreadsheet engine. It's a React app with a Rust backend, but it impressed me how snappy it was[0]. Of course, it's not nearly as feature rich as Google Sheets, not to mention Excel. [0]: https://app.ironcalc.com/

"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.

Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

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Hey! This is my project! Amazed to see this here. I'll try to answer questions people might have

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

Re: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

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