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This is awesome (let expressions in formulas!!), but Mesh Spreadsheets has offered most of this for a couple of years, and in a free, open-source form. Specifi
by chrispsn 8y ago
This is awesome (let expressions in formulas!!), but Mesh Spreadsheets has offered most of this for a couple of years, and in a free, open-source form.
Specifically:
- arrays and objects living in a cell
- mix of spreadsheet and textual views
- functions in spreadsheet cells, and running spreadsheets as a messaging service (as a lambda function / API)
- dynamic array sizes
We deliver this by offering a grid view of (structured) JavaScript code.
http://mesh-spreadsheet.com/ http://mesh-spreadsheet.com/
- TomMarius 8y agoThe problem is that your software does not run on top of Excel. Nowadays it is not as much of a problem, but in the past, Excel was often the only software you could use to do something like this - enterprise computers used to be incredibly locked down.
- chrispsn 8y agoIt's true, not being part of Excel adds some friction. Thankfully IE11 has Office interop via COM, so Mesh (or a site embedding Mesh) can talk to existing spreadsheet investments. And on the locked-down front, Mesh doesn't require IT permissions to run (unless JS is disabled in your browser).
- snazz 8y agoI had never heard of Mesh before. It looks very cool. I wonder if the concept would work well on mobile devices (unfortunately the editor itself doesn’t, as it stands now).
- chrispsn 8y agoThanks! Yeah, marketing has been limited as I want to improve the error experience first. To be honest, mobile is not a focus as I think it's hard to be productive without a proper keyboard. I'd like to make the iPad + kb experience better in the long-term though.