InflexHQ

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by InflexHQ 4y ago
Cheers! Work stalled since having a baby a year ago, but I’m sure I’ll be able to return to it eventually.
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
The UI is implemented using Halogen, a front end library for PureScript. That handles redisplay when recalculation happens. That’s more like React or Elm. Rather, I mean exposing an FRP API to people using the Inflex language.
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
I'll be adding this to Inflex ( https://inflex.io/ ), I have the design worked out on paper. (But I'll be open sourcing it first and releasing as a desktop app, and then get back to dev.) It's also helpful to t
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
I follow https://documentation.divio.com/ > There is a secret that needs to be understood in order to write good software documentation: there isn’t one thing called documentation, there are four. > > They are: tut
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. I just realized your use case could fit quite neatly into Inflex (my app, not open for signups, but has a “try” sandbox), a use case I never considered. I have an unexposed WIP type of cell that is a rich text document.
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
In Inflex decimals are not floating point, they’re fixed precision. So 0.1+0.2=0.3 produces #true. You can try by hitting the Formula button here: https://inflex.io/try And you can choose an arbitrary level of precision:
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
Inflex ( https://inflex.io/ ) does this bidirectional editing: you can edit any data structure as either a graphical object or the associated code, and the other one updates appropriately. (See e.g. https://discour
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
I realized I left that open ended but I’ll touch on a few points that I think are relevant here; * There’s a language which is like Haskell/Elm/PureScript in terms of being purely functional and statically typed. But with syntax t
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
I would add that any tool looking to replace Excel will be build on some very powerful but very primitive foundations, I’m order to compete with that flexibility. It’ll never be about adding a special “view” like AirTable or just tacking in
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
I’m trying my best to create such a product. What you’re describing is something that (1) amateur spreadsheeters can use, (2) the power users, and (3) programmers, will be able to use and not feel out of their depth or patronized. I persona
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
My business is based in the UK which is compatible with EU’s GDPR, so it’s fine to be hosted there.
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
My reactive workspace tool aka spreadsheet replacement (Inflex) is SaaS, but I’ve also considered offering a completely downloadable tool for a one off price. I think if ever get a substantial user base and people ask for that, it’s on the
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
I switched from Azure to DigitalOcean to Hetzner. Reasons were as you stated, simpler cost model, simpler technology.
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
> Another thought along these lines: quite a lot of my spreadsheet use involves doing calculations on whole columns. This is really painful in Excel, where I have to manually select just the right areas of my sheet, then write the formul
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
Inflex is statically typed, it’s pretty much PureScript with more familiar-to-Excel syntax, with row types used for records and also polymorphic variants, which aren’t in PureScript but are in OCaml. Numbers and ordering and comparisons are
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
This in principle accurate, but the real story is less polished. If you look through the AirTable forums, you’ll see lots of cases where users are asking how to do a thing, and are told to abandon the highly limited scripting and to use Jav
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
See my app for an implementation of this.
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
It does have limited calc, but I tend to think of it as more of an afterthought. The scripting is “very incomplete” in the words of the author, consider e.g. https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/issues/37
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
I’ve also seen that there’s a whole sub industry of companies that build a platform on top of a spreadsheet by assuming a certain structure of the data. Aside from myself, Julia’s Pluto.jl, ObservableHQ, and a few researchers, there aren’t
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
I think Excel fails when it comes to other natural types of data such as trees, graphs, even arrays or records. It’s terrible at all of them. It’s not relational, and it’s not inductive, has no sum types, or anything. What it is, is a very
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by InflexHQ 4y ago
While this seems like a relevant thread, I’ll drop in our app too. Our approach is wide enough that “reactive rich text” like Patera is a subset of our functionality. See our Twitter feed for recent examples: https://twitter.com&