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Hi everyone, Corey here from Eve. We've been in the trenches for a while, so I've been working to document a backlog of progress. A lot has changed even in the
by cmontella 10y ago
Hi everyone, Corey here from Eve. We've been in the trenches for a while, so I've been working to document a backlog of progress.
A lot has changed even in the ~3 months since the work in this post occurred, so it's not reflective of where we are now. But I'll stick around here to answer any questions relevant to this post or Eve in general.
Edit: I wasn't anticipating this would be on HN today, but it is, so here is part 2 with the rest of the story: http://incidentalcomplexity.com/2016/06/22/mar2/ http://incidentalcomplexity.com/2016/06/22/mar2/
- zubairq 10y agoWill it be possible To upload aN existing spreadsheet with formulae from excel and then gradually Add eve specific functionality?
- cmontella 10y agoEve is only as useful as the data in it, so we really want to make it easy to import data from a variety of sources. You bring up a really good point though, that if our interface is grid-based, then there should be a simple mapping from Excel -> Eve. We support a superset of Excel functionality, so theoretically it should be possible, but as always the devil is in the details.
- _pmf_ 10y ago> We support a superset of Excel functionality I doubt that.
- spraak 10y agoUm, why?
- cmontella 10y agoI would guess his/her skepticism comes from the fact that Excel has about a billion + 1 features. Even Google and Open Office have trouble supporting everything. In that sense, I was too loose with my comment of supporting a superset. There's the old adage that everyone uses 20% of the features in Office, but it's a different 20% for every person. Instead of "superset of Excel functionality" I should have said "superset of Excel semantics".