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Comment by wkirby

10 days ago

I've spent the last 8 weeks or so building the spreadsheet tool I want to see in the world. CSVs as first-class citizens with the ergonomics and speed of my text editor. It's been a great opportunity to explore building GUIs in rust, and to really experiment with coding assistants.

I'm looking for alpha/beta users https://cassava.dev/.

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jpsimons  10 days ago

I like working in native apps on my Mac for spreadsheets, so I've used Numbers a little bit, but if you have the same iCloud file open on two machines they conflict and don't merge nicely. Does this have a better story there?

  • wkirby  10 days ago

    Almost certainly not; it really depends on how iCloud handles the sync. Cassava supports (at the moment) CSV (and its variants TSV, etc.) and JSON files. If your sync mechanism works well for those files in a text editor like vscode or sublime, then it will work well with Cassava. If not, there's not much we can do on our end - that's really a problem with how the sync mechanism works.

wkirby  10 days ago

Replying for the ~5 people who happened to download earlier this afternoon, the rc20 build that was uploaded earlier today was missing the update server URL. Re-downloading rc20 should have a corrected build that will notify you of any updates in the future.

414techie  10 days ago

Why use Cassava over other options, such as Excel, CSVLint, or Notepad++?

Also, have you considered supporting Windows and Linux?

  • wkirby  10 days ago

    Linux support is there and working, half my team uses arch btw. Windows is working, I just don't build for it right now.

    Excel is cripplingly slow (thought more capable). I don't like using text editors for sheet data; it's simply not as ergonomic to browse a CSV as a text file.