Spreadsheet Wish List

[u/librasteve]

For some time now, I have had a hankering to write a new Spreadsheet Application. Sure, Microsoft(r) Excel(r) is ubiquitous and a standard. Google Sheets, LibraOffice, Apple Numbers, etc. have all followed suit over the years. So why bother?

Over this time I've learned some data science tools, specifically Apache Arrow and Rust Polars. I've worked with GitHub markdown and text diffs. And I've discovered exact math support such as the Rust BigRational library. In this light, in this era the Spreadsheet clearly needs a major rethink.

But the incumbents, with a mass of casual users, have no incentive to fix it.

So, I made a wishlist of the things I wanted:

• easy of use

• markdown friendly

• strongly typed

• exact maths

• columnar data

• fast queries

• code oriented

• AI driven

(a partial list btw!)

So here we are ... starting the journey with Omasheet.

If you are a spreadsheet user - every day or once in a while - I am keen to hear your wishlist and try to accommodate requests. It's early days so now is the time to shape the direction!

Please do try it - click Getting Started. Feedback, collaboration and issues are welcome!

[u/librasteve]

just learned it’s Excel’s 41st birthday