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this looks really cool! I've been reading quite a bit about spreadsheet/calculation engines as I've been building my own as a hobby project recently, and the whole space is pretty interesting.

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have you seen any C++ or C spreadsheet engines that look reasonable. I need to embedded a spreadsheet engine in a C++ system and have looked at using either sc-im and also this obscure project called teapot. I need a spreadsheet style runtime formulas and cells, not a calculation engine for compile time.

Any reading pointers?

I've built my own cheapo one in js to support my financial modeling, but it's not quite general purpose so I get away with a lot. Would be curious how to take it to the next level without reinventing the wheel.

This post is pretty good: https://lord.io/spreadsheets/

this, and the documents it links to, are very helpful! thank you for sharing this.

Not spreadsheet, but concept is the same: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0...

You need to solve recursive dirty updates.

This is one of the best sources [1]. Spreadsheet implementation in C# + corresponding book.

[1] https://www.itu.dk/people/sestoft/funcalc/

excellent! thank you so much—these things are difficult to find on search engines.

Nice! Any open source code I can check out?

possibly at some point in the future, it's a very early prototype right now. the objective is actually to make a spreadsheet-based video game.

Sounds sick! Would love to play it once it's ready :D

Check FunCalc [1]. Spreadsheet implementation in C# + corresponding book.

[1] https://www.itu.dk/people/sestoft/funcalc/

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