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by eointierney 591 days ago
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.

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> One of those "why hasn't someone done this already?" projects.

I think this one is fairly clear. It’s because it’s a massive amount of work with a not necessarily large payoff for yourself?

I think some of these basically get made when someone gets too annoyed something similar doesn’t exist.

It is a massive amount of work. Another thing I might add, not the most appealing thing to work on.
I suppose at least you get to check off a lot of boxes when another formula passes all test cases :)
Why would there be any reason for this to kill excel? Seriously you should try to replace excel entirely rather than merely get a better version of it. If you want to get a better excel just buy excel and actually learn how to use it.
Woah, thanks for the kind words!

This is out of date, and not a priority ATM, but we will have a TUI for it:

https://github.com/ironcalc/TironCalc