Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

Re:Proton Native – React Native for the desktop by airstrike on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @10:14PM (#16982861)

Hence why so many enterprise installs are still proudly running Office 2010.

I do wonder why nobody takes a stab at creating a bonafide Excel clone that looks modern and runs fast (and, no, LibreOffice isn’t good enough).

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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the desktop by sgift on Thursday May 03, 2018 @07:55AM (#16985099)

Because writing an Excel clone which is "good enough" is really, really hard work, takes a really long time and you probably won't get away with "Let's do 80% in version 1 and then optimize" - People expect Excel. Not Excel lite. Especially if they have to pay for it.

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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the desktop by airstrike on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:41PM (#16996513)

I’m not saying it’s easy, but in an age of so much disruption it’s honestly amazing how Excel continues to dominate. And I say this as someone who spends most of my waking hours in Excel...

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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the desktop by tluyben2 on Thursday May 03, 2018 @06:15AM (#16984642)

LibreOffice was written using an overachitected component system; it is very slow. Just writing something without the layers of abstraction would be refreshing.

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