node-bignum
grist-core
node-bignum | grist-core | |
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1 | 52 | |
422 | 6,271 | |
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10.0 | 9.8 | |
over 3 years ago | 6 days ago | |
JavaScript | TypeScript | |
- | Apache License 2.0 |
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node-bignum
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Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
> Many languages that are considered "precision" languages have some form of suffix to denote large/long/arbitrary-sized literals. (C# there's a big useful difference if a literal ends with `m` or `l`.)
The failure mode is significantly different when comparing JS to other mainstream languages. Most languages have a "checked" mode (either opt-in or mandatory) so that expressions like `4611686018427387904 + 4611686018427387904` can raise an error, whereas JS will just give you the wrong answer. Python is the most ergonomic for beginners or non-developers because the runtime will convert an integral type to an arbitrary precision integer on overflow.
Yes, there are alternative primitives that can be used, but you need to know they exist. We're talking about a tool that is explicitly designed for people who are not professional programmers, and JS's behavior here is surprising unless you understand the underlying data model. I would personally much rather give beginners a tool incorporating as few footguns as possible.
> JS is a language with the tools today to do precision arithmetic (whether you like it or not)
Arbitrary precision arithmetic has been possible in JS since the language was invented, but it has always been a pain. The bignum NPM package[0] predates the BigInt numeric primitive by 9 years. The addition of `BigInt` to ES2020 was important for performance (since implementing an arithmetic primitive in JS makes calculations dog slow), but it didn't add any fundamental affordances to the language.
[0]: https://github.com/justmoon/node-bignum
grist-core
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)
and poke around. If the words battery correct horse staple mean something to you, you might have an advantage.
The heart of the software you'll be working with: https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/
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Form to DB
Because the single-system paradigm doesn't work any more. However, modern replacements do exist, Airtable is one of the first; it's basically the notion of a "spreadsheet with more structure", and then building forms and such on top of that. I've recently been playing with Grist and like it, although it is rough around the edges.
https://www.getgrist.com
- Ask HN: Spreadsheets like Google Sheets but not from Google?
- Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat)
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A modern, open-source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid
i want exactly the opposite - something that does not try to be a spreadsheet, but gives me a grid view of a database table, with concurrent edits a la google sheets, and lets me access the same data from my webapp backend.
i have been searching for this for literally years, all the time maintaining an app as a google sheets script, because much as i would prefer something self-hosted and customisable, that collaborative grid view is the ideal user interface from my users' point of view. so far nothing has fit the bill - basetool (https://github.com/basetool-io/basetool) might have but it's discontinued and underdocumented, and i'm not really a web developer so i don't feel up to the challenge of getting it running and integrated into an app.
grist actually came really close from a ui perspective, but it was too focused on being a spreadsheet and doing computation in the frontend. i filed an issue that explains my use case in more detail: https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/issues/422
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Unicorn Startup Airtable Lays Off 27% of Firm, Shifts Focus to Big Clients
Founder of Grist here (https://www.getgrist.com/):
- focus on small teams and individuals
- open source (with community contributing!)
- can be run self-managed
- portable data (lossless export in SQLite format)
- full of great features (granular access rules, formulas with python, conditional formatting, webhooks, etc etc)
If it's little-known, it's because we spend too much time building, not enough time selling.
- Grist Is the Evolution of Spreadsheets
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From no-code to co-code
The exact LLM used in the experiment mentioned in this post was upstage-llama-2-70b-instruct-v2.ggmlv3.q2_K. Grist was configured to use it via llama-cpp-python and https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core#ai-formula-assistant...
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Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/
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Welcome to Datasette Cloud
Check out Grist in the ‘Access with sane backend’ space. SQLite, open source and fantastic UX https://www.getgrist.com/ and https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core
I use and love both Datasette and Grist - they’re complementary.
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