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Re:Bell-Curve Opinions on Engineering by superb-owl on Sunday July 03, 2022 @08:48PM (#31972356)
> Spreadsheets are often more maintainable, more usable, and more extensible than most software projects.

I would love to see someone successfully bridge the gap between spreadsheets and software. Just some version control and testing would be amazing

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Re:Bell-Curve Opinions on Engineering by rckrd on Sunday July 03, 2022 @08:54PM (#31972393)
A few startups have tried to bring the reactivity of spreadsheets to notebook-style development -- Hex for python and Observable for JS.
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Re:Bell-Curve Opinions on Engineering by woojoo666 on Sunday July 03, 2022 @09:08PM (#31972467)
What about Airtable?

https://airtable.com/

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Re:Bell-Curve Opinions on Engineering by Equiet on Monday July 04, 2022 @09:37AM (#31976895)
Deepnote (YC S19) is working on this (I'm the founder).

https://deepnote.com/

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