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Re:Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a sprea... by xiaodai on Friday September 27, 2024 @08:29PM (#41676858)
These approach has been tried so many times and has failed so many times that it’s not funny
Re:Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a sprea... by etbebl on Saturday September 28, 2024 @02:10AM (#41678252)
I guess I wasn't around to see it; do you mind saying why it's failed? Well, I don't know if it's commercially viable, but just speaking for myself I've been looking for something like this for a while.
Re:Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a sprea... by ies7 on Saturday September 28, 2024 @03:23AM (#41678546)
The ones who use spreadsheet usually don't write code well.

The ones who code usually don't like spreadsheet.

Re:Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a sprea... by etbebl on Saturday September 28, 2024 @11:10AM (#41680730)
What gets me is that even if you don't code much, if you're using a spreadsheet with formulas, in that moment you are writing code, and doing so in an awful, awful language. Sure, "SUM" is easy, but the moment you have any kind of conditional logic it gets pretty hairy. Maybe there's something about traditional spreadsheet languages that makes them easier than, say, numpy for non-coders, but I don't see it.
Re:Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a sprea... by Manchego79 on Monday September 30, 2024 @12:14PM (#41698853)
That's one of the reasons we started building Quadratic, it's a spreadsheet where everyone - technical or not can work with data in the same place. With our AI integration, anyone can start writing JS or Python for complex analysis or mix in formulas for simpler computations.
Re:Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a sprea... by Manchego79 on Monday September 30, 2024 @04:03PM (#41701457)
If you give Quadratic a try, we'd love to hear your feedback - there's a button in the app :)
Re:Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a sprea... by xiaodai on Saturday October 05, 2024 @07:30AM (#41749166)
U can still google resolver one or was revolver one. It was bascilly the same thing but python.