IronCalc
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Main engine of the IronCalc ecosystem
Open-source spreadsheet engine
Features
- Provides an advanced open-source spreadsheet solution that is easily accessible to everyone
- Offered under the MIT/Apache 2.0 licenses, so it can be integrated into projects, customized as needed, and shared without restriction
- Features of IronCalc
- Supports a wide range of functions and offers Excel compatibility
- Fast and lightweight, tests for every function, internationalization support
- Spreadsheets have been essential to a wide range of applications for more than 40 years.
- Many existing solutions are expensive, require an account, or suffer from performance and stability problems.
- IronCalc solves these problems and provides a powerful open-source spreadsheet engine that meets diverse needs.
- Addressing unmet needs: supports SaaS developers by providing a better open-source alternative.
- Automated spreadsheet processing: provides the performance and features needed for large-scale scenarios.
- Global collaboration: lets anyone use spreadsheets online and share them easily.
- Blog integration: lets bloggers embed interactive spreadsheets in their posts.
- Research and development: promotes open research on spreadsheet engines.
- Community and collaboration: builds a cooperative environment where ideas and innovation can thrive.
- Building a knowledge base: provides tools and knowledge for the next generation of spreadsheet developers.
Hacker News comments
- IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine | Hacker News
- Someone asks whether administrators could create formulas using the Ironcalc UI. They wonder whether it is possible to run formulas on a server to get results based on input from other sources. They already have custom code running in Rust, but it takes time for administrators to build advanced formulas and convert them into server code. They ask whether this could be supported or made possible
- The project owner is surprised to see their project featured here and offers to answer questions
- Ironcalc is rated as a project with the potential to replace Excel. It is Excel-compatible, performs well, is extensible, and runs for free in the browser. One commenter claims it could become an editor on the level of Emacs. They plan to share it with their students
- Someone asks whether it uses a cached calculation chain for performance optimization and whether it also takes volatile functions into account
- Ironcalc is a spreadsheet engine with a React app and a Rust backend; one commenter was impressed by how responsive it is. It is not as feature-rich as Google Sheets or Excel
- Someone notes it is interesting that the prefix Iron now means Rust. In the past it meant .NET
- Someone says they now feel the urge to add Ironcalc to their app's reporting system
- Someone left a comment about large values or arbitrary precision, and says an error occurs when pasting values in Firefox
- Someone is hoping for the project's success and wonders whether it will support a scripting language like VBA in Microsoft Excel
- After trying Ironcalc, someone says some basic features are missing. For example, there is no way to select an entire row or column by clicking its header, or to auto-fit a column to its content length by double-clicking the resizer between two columns