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I like Soulver, but I've found Calca to be a better fit for my needs. It supports graphing, unbound functions, and more advanced math support. Its UI is more mi

I like Soulver, but I've found Calca to be a better fit for my needs. It supports graphing, unbound functions, and more advanced math support. Its UI is more minimal and the rendering isn't as nice as Soulver, but I find I'm able to iterate with it a lot faster. I'm trying out QuikTape now, but it had to clone 1.6GiB. When I launch on macOS I am not able to actually type into the UI, and the window doesn't show as an app in the dock. Perhaps it's more functional on Linux. I'm still waiting for an app that can properly do real units/dimensional analysis and good date math (`today + 3 business days`).

tunesmith 4y ago
I like Calca too better too. This is one of those crowded spaces that still feels like it has room for something else to come along and truly nail it, though. I find myself reaching for Calca, local Jupyter, ObservableHQ, and local Quarto in VsCode all for slightly different reasons.
Someone 4y ago
> I'm trying out QuikTape now, but it had to clone 1.6GiB. How far we’ve come from awk scripts that are about 1kiB (https://c2.com/doc/expense/ https://c2.com/doc/expense/) > and good date math (`today + 3 business days`) That’s tricky/impossible in international teams.
- 4silvertooth 4y ago
  Ohh interesting, 1.6 Gib is the SDK with all the documentation, the final builds are comparatively tiny.
4silvertooth 4y ago
Can you try the prebuilt from releases for macOS?
- tunesmith 4y ago
  BTW, I tried downloading this but it didn't have a file extension. I suppose I could have figured it out by looking at the internals, but I wasn't sure if it was a pkg or an app or what.
  - 4silvertooth 4y ago
    It's binary you could `chmod +x qwiktape` and execute it, I've made note in the readme about it.
  - josephcsible 4y ago
    File extensions on everything are a Windows-ism (originally a DOS-ism). Why do you expect them on files specific to other platforms?

tunesmith 4y ago

I like Calca too better too. This is one of those crowded spaces that still feels like it has room for something else to come along and truly nail it, though. I find myself reaching for Calca, local Jupyter, ObservableHQ, and local Quarto in VsCode all for slightly different reasons.

Someone 4y ago

> I'm trying out QuikTape now, but it had to clone 1.6GiB. How far we’ve come from awk scripts that are about 1kiB (https://c2.com/doc/expense/ https://c2.com/doc/expense/) > and good date math (`today + 3 business days`) That’s tricky/impossible in international teams.

4silvertooth 4y ago
Ohh interesting, 1.6 Gib is the SDK with all the documentation, the final builds are comparatively tiny.

4silvertooth 4y ago

Can you try the prebuilt from releases for macOS?

tunesmith 4y ago
BTW, I tried downloading this but it didn't have a file extension. I suppose I could have figured it out by looking at the internals, but I wasn't sure if it was a pkg or an app or what.
- 4silvertooth 4y ago
  It's binary you could `chmod +x qwiktape` and execute it, I've made note in the readme about it.
- josephcsible 4y ago
  File extensions on everything are a Windows-ism (originally a DOS-ism). Why do you expect them on files specific to other platforms?