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   by nhatcher 2y ago

   One of the recurrent topics is integration with spreadsheets done by non-developers. Imagine a spreadsheet built by the finance department of an institution. It is also maintained by them. The developer team might want to integrate this too
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   by nhatcher 2y ago

   Noup. I'm not doing this for money. Not saying there is not a business angle, and happy to help anyone that wants to build a business using IronCalc.
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   by nhatcher 2y ago

   I remember trying it out, yes. I yet need to do a serious comparative analysis. For what I can see OnlyOffice is feature complete, it's a full office solution. The sheets component is way ahead from IronCalc. On the plus side, IronCalc
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   by nhatcher 2y ago

   Ooops, just fixed it. Here is the link: https://discord.gg/zZYWfh3RHJ I don't necessarily respond every day immediately, but I am active.
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   by nhatcher 2y ago

   If you are curious, I just made the analytics public: https://plausible.io/ironcalc.com I think more than one folk in HN might be interested. All traffic is because of this post. I had no visitors as of today. This was work
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   by nhatcher 2y ago

   If you do and want help with, don't hesitate in contacting me. Right now you can't just `npm install ironcalc`, but hopefully that will be in place in a month from now.
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   by nhatcher 2y ago

   Thanks. I am thinking a lot about this recently. We will definitely support a scripting language, or rather several scripting languages. VBA won't be one of them, I think. I wouldn't want to create a language just for this. Maybe
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   by nhatcher 2y ago

   Thanks for the bug report! I just added csv copy/paste, most likely an error there. We don't support arbitrary precision arithmetic but I would like to.
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   by nhatcher 2y ago

   Thanks :). WRT: Plausible. I think I will remove all kinds of analytics, I'm not yet convinced I should be using them at all. That being said I had been longing to try Plausible for the a long time and this seemed like a good opportuni
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    I'm a software developer with extremely bad marketing skills... This project targets both end spreadsheet users and developers. In its first an engine (a Rust crate) then a full fledged product. FWIW, I'm over them moon this proje
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    Thanks for the feedback, I will keep this on the back of my head. This and things like sensitivity analysis are not in our immediate roadmap, but this is the kind of thing that would be fairly easy to add. You can do it right now programmat
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    The first well known spreadsheet application was called VisiCalc[0] (the killer app!). The "Iron" side is because it is written in Rust and the domain was available. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    Tuta sponsors by providing us with free email accounts, that's all. I reached out months ago, they liked the project and were kind enough to help us out with the email. I haven't have talks with them about integrating IronCalc, bu
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    Hi wsih, thanks! There is a lot to unpack on those threads but of the top of my head: 1. Clear separation between UX/backend Done by design in IronCalc. It is first a spreadsheet engine. 2. Multi language support, language connectivity
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    It's running entirely on your browser unless you click share, download or import. The computation part is done in Rust compiled to wasm. Thank you for posting!
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    I wrote about it at length here: https://www.nhatcher.com/post/a-rustic-invitation-to-parsing... The implementation in IronCalc follows that.
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    Hey! This is my project! Amazed to see this here. I'll try to answer questions people might have
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    Well good luck parsing sqlite syntax! I had to write a (fairly small) subset sqlite parser for work a couple of years ago. I really like sqlite, it's always a source of inspiration. The railroad diagrams are tremendously useful: https
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    FWIW, I am building another alternative. We are very, very, very far away from Excel. But TBH I think that's true for anything else that is not Excel or Google sheets. Zoho deserves a special mention and lots of other good folks have c
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    Math's 'Bunkbed Conjecture' Has Been Debunked(quantamagazine.org)

    25 points by nhatcher 2y ago|3 comments
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    And written in racket! Looks like a good learning material. Congratulations and thanks for sharing
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    Derek Muller just did an interesting take on QR codes and their history on his popular channel veritasium: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ebcowAJD8
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    Submitted my little side project IronCalc. One thing it was difficult is that it wasn't clear what fields in the form had an error. So I didn't know what to modify to make the submit button clickable. It actually took me a bit to
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    Hi, many, many thanks!!! You are absolutely right, I need a prper QA person. This is a one person band ATM. So it's not QA, its technical writing, it's marketing, dev ops, search for funding, design, you name it. I am in conversat
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    I work a little bit on it every day. I guess somewhere around 15 hours per week. Glad you like it.
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    I'm working on https://www.ironcalc.com as a side project. A spreadsheet engine with an open source permissive license. I have high hopes for it but I'm still in early stages of the project.
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    This looks fantastic TBH! Can't wait to give it a go. Congratulations. I've long thought something like this should be possible. The only thing I've done is document carefully my own steps: https://www.nhatcher.com
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    No, as far as I know. And I have been thinking of ways to that fir the better part of the last decade. I think bringing modern programming practices into Excel might make huge differences. But I don't know how to do that in an Excel us
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    Make sure your handle doesn't have a space at the end. That was my problem
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    by nhatcher 2y ago

    Off topic, but since you are here, thanks for rocket.rs. Awesome project!