[aarondia]

I've been working on/with spreadsheet users (and some hardcore spreadsheet financial models) for the past 1.5 years - and I like to think about spreadsheets as a reactive, visual (and 2d!), _functional_ programming language. Except if you use circular references, in which case it's no longer functional (b/c you can use use circular references to store internal state!).

If you're interested, I've spent the past 6 months working on Mito -- https://trymito.io/launch1 -- - it's a spreadsheet that sits inside a Python data analytics workflow, and generates Python for you while you edit. Our approach to spreadsheet programming is a little bit more on the nose :)

[chrisdone]

I like your work on Mito, and I feel like it’s the python answer to a project that I’m working on which is the equivalent but with Haskell, or rather a riff on Haskell to be more amenable to spreadsheets-like programming.

One thing that you can do when you have a pure functional programming language is rather than generating separate cells for modifications, you can go into the code and modify it directly fairly reliably.

I’ve linked my project elsewhere, don’t want to spam the thread.