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  1. nexo

    Discontinued A strongly-typed spreadsheet focussing on ease of use and maintainability

    > It would be great to hear from the HN community about ways to improve spreadsheets.

    I’m working on this! Early days so far, and I have nothing much to show for it yet, but I have some ideas on integrating static type inference and proper data structures into spreadsheets. My initial prototype is at [0]: it’s horrifically buggy in just about every way (don’t even try to get it working!), but the screenshot should give some idea of what I’m thinking should be possible.

    [0] https://github.com/bradrn/nexo

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  3. ipyflow

    A reactive Python kernel for Jupyter notebooks.

  4. Pluto.jl

    🎈 Simple reactive notebooks for Julia

  5. XL-FFT

    Fast Fourier Transform for Excel with LAMBDA formulas (and without VBA).

    I have implemented a convolution (using radix-2 FFT) as an intermediate step in Bluestein FFT.

    Look in the source of: https://github.com/altomani/XL-FFT

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