cljs4excel
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repl for spreadsheets
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
3 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.38.
Idea: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool demonstration of ClojureScript self-hosting in Excel
From 2 comments
This reminds me of one of the points pg makes in What Made Lisp Different [1], under #9: ``` "compiling at runtime is the basis of Lisp's use as an extension language in programs…
mfikes on HNVery cool. Looks like a promising project
bauser on HN
Idea of ClojureScript replacing VBA macros is appealing
From 1 comment
Awesome! Now I'm dreaming of a world where people would learn ClojureScript instead of writing VBA macros :)
mraison on HN
Objections
Unclear whether arbitrary cell-to-function-to-cell pipelines are possible without VBA
From 2 comments
I love the idea of this, but then started to wonder what this would let me do. Can I take data from an arbitrary set of input cells, pass them through a sequence of clojurescript…
ghufran_syed on HNI would hope that would be the ultimate goal. However, that might not be possible without at least some VBA work. Experimentation will have to be undertaken. The real question is…
WBrentWilliams on HN
Requests
Blocking variants of the async binding functions
From 1 comment
why use continuation functions (... println) instead of returning values ? Is it because of the underlying JS API is async ? Maybe use something like chans to pipe async values ?…
moonchrome on HN
Idiomatic return values rather than callbacks
From 1 comment
why use continuation functions (... println) instead of returning values ? Is it because of the underlying JS API is async ? Maybe use something like chans to pipe async values ?…
moonchrome on HN
Questions
Why callbacks instead of returned values
From 1 comment
why use continuation functions (... println) instead of returning values ? Is it because of the underlying JS API is async ? Maybe use something like chans to pipe async values ?…
moonchrome on HN
Can data from input cells be passed through ClojureScript functions and written back
From 1 comment
I love the idea of this, but then started to wonder what this would let me do. Can I take data from an arbitrary set of input cells, pass them through a sequence of clojurescript…
ghufran_syed on HN
Alternatives named
VBA macros
From 2 comments
Awesome! Now I'm dreaming of a world where people would learn ClojureScript instead of writing VBA macros :)
mraison on HNI would hope that would be the ultimate goal. However, that might not be possible without at least some VBA work. Experimentation will have to be undertaken. The real question is…
WBrentWilliams on HN