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baldr333: Very shitty software.
m-hodges: I like it. Sometimes I need to do some quick columnar math that is unwieldy in macOS calculator and I don’t want to pop open Google Sheets. This works great for that.
drumhead: So Lotus 1-2-3
chadrs: I love this but with all the advances of TUI frameworks, using C + ncurses feels like such a hard path.
dafty4: Cool which newer TUI frameworks do you prefer?
talideon: It's a tool with a long vintage, and it wouldn't make sense to port it to a different language just to take advantage of the likes of bubbletea or textual.
freedomben: Agreed. Also for something this complex, performance isn't going to be automatically good enough I suspect.
thesuitonym: I'd love if this had support for saving as xlsx. Being able to open them is nice, but it would be great if I could collaborate with MS Office users without them ever knowing.
freedomben: It does. It's not compiled in to the package repos though, so you might have to build it yourself[1]. It's also a bit buggy currently.[1]: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/wiki/Building-sc%E2%80...
dodomodo: I think spreadsheets are a greater example of something that require the subtleties of an actual GUI. This is most obvious with the various plots which are hilariously imprecise. But the advantages of GUI are also present when just using the spreadsheet itself, it's ability to convey the skeuomorphic two dimensional space is much greater.And it's not like the terminal can't be a greater data processing tool, but you have to use different paradigms.Still from an esthetical perspective I love those simple TUI interfaces. They invoke a weird sense of comfort in me that I can't fully explain.
freedomben: > I think spreadsheets are a greater example of something that require the subtleties of an actual GUII've been wondering about this too. I think a great TUI could get it done though, but it remains to be seen how it could really stack up. If I didn't have so many projects already, I'd give this a shot because I would really love a "vim" for spreadsheets
akavel: Lol, young padawan, check up those weird old programs that were called "VisiCalc" and "Lotus 1-2-3".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalchttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3
vrighter: lots of bugs and crashes last time I tried it. Should see if it improved
aldanor: Rust's ratatui is pretty good on the lower-level side of things
