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by nhatcher 593 days ago
Yeah, that is not our battle. At least not right now. Excel, and Google sheets, are and will be far more advanced than IronCalc. What we can do is to cater different needs. The focus is on lightweight and open source. Given the billions of spreadsheets out there I wouldn't be surprised if for a small percentage of them IronCalc is a better option.

The reason for Excel compatibility is twofold:

* You can use your workbooks as the are * You don't need to learn a new tool

> do you plan to offer a transition to more modern forms of calculations as vectors and arrays formula panels together with frozen sheets of raw data and output?

So far, nothing beyond Excel's compatibility