A reminder for everyone excel web is actually entirely free and you can create stuff with https://excel.new
We spent a lot of time making it faster and rewrote a bunch of it ^^
(I'm just an engineer, I don't speak for my corporate overlords)
What is wrong with excel.office.com with a version toggle?
The .new TLD is pretty nifty. sheets.new gets you the same thing as excel.new, but for Google.
Using X.new seems like a bad idea, there is no way for me to understand if it's actually a official project by the companies themselves or just a random developer who has set that up. Maybe one day it'll ask someone for auth, they don't notice it's at microsoftweb.com instead of microsoftonline.com and get phished.
Really hard to trust random domains when a simple excel.office.com/new would do just as fine.
> Spreadsheets are one of the hardest things you can build — right up there with compilers.
I think I would like to see a "democratization" of the technology and find books, and lectures about it as popular as we find books and lectures about compilers.
As for the OP I find their take interesting, of course you can accomplish that with more established tools but it was a refreshing read and an interesting, if not inspiring, notation.
PS: Is it possible that there is a regression when computing sheets with lots of open ranges (like =SUM(D:D))
I love Excel, BTW :) just wanted to let you know in case you want to make it even faster (and easier to onboard presumably based on the domain).