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Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from Java... by pjmlp on Friday June 28, 2024 @04:56AM (#40818863)
You are forgetting many people use Excel on the Web nowadays, running on the same WebAssembly infrastructure as well.

And Microsoft would rather push everyone to the 365 Web subscription, than keeping selling native Excel, which by the way, nowadays uses plenty of React Native code instead of pure C++, exactly because of code portability to Office 365.

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Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from Java... by water-your-self on Friday June 28, 2024 @09:45AM (#40820549)
So youre saying theres a market gap for a platform native sheets app?
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Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from Java... by pjmlp on Friday June 28, 2024 @10:01AM (#40820688)
It is already covered by Android and iDevices.
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Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from Java... by TRiG_Ireland on Friday June 28, 2024 @06:09PM (#40825826)
There's always Libre Office.
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