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Chris Pearson edited this page Jul 2, 2018 · 2 revisions

Notes on other 'new spreadsheet' tech:

On the ubiquity of spreadsheets:

On declarative spreadsheets:

Thoughts on using JS as the spreadsheet language (as opposed to a traditional Excel-like language):

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power
  • Key weakness is that JS is by nature imperative; basically a sequential order of operations, rather than Excel's calculation tree. Without forcing the programmer to adopt cells via a library, you have to run the whole file each time

On actually implementing a spreadsheet:

On data structures for records:

On high-performance JavaScript and fixed-datatype arrays:

On the future direction of spreadsheet-like systems:

On developer UX:

On the future of IDE-like systems:

On changing the shape of data (something spreadsheets make relatively easy via the visual+spatial connection):

On a spreadsheet interface being ideal for display of data (and its separation from logic):

On Windows CMD and built-in programming capabilities:

On auto-formatting code:

On data/file compression:

On cramming multi-D data into a 2D plane:

On the benefits of Excel Tables (maybe not relevant for this):

On the bloat of Electron:

On spreadsheet errors (and tools to fix them):

On module systems:

JS infrastructure that's written in JS and therefore can be run or be ported to Windows JScript:

General 'hmm':

Spreadsheet users

  • Comparison to Excel
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