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Actually I am still using Handsontable (while Sensei Grid is under development) and have been using it for quite some time. Handsontable is not stable enough and has too many bugs, at least for our particular use cases. Handsontable is also resource heavy and quite complex - we rather prefer something simple and straightforward that is not a pain to maintain.

There are currently 571 open issues[0] for Handsontable on Github. Each new release breaks something major and we can't wait forever for them to fix the issues. I wrote two blog posts regarding this (without mentioning Handsontable, but it was the library in question):

* http://lauris.github.io/development/2014/08/25/work-and-open...

* http://lauris.github.io/datazenit/2014/08/29/open-source-wor...

These articles may shed some light on why did we start development on our own library.

[0] Handsontable open issues on Github - https://github.com/handsontable/jquery-handsontable/issues

Yeah... having had to implement a couple of workarounds, I can't say I disagree with you. Which is a shame because I think it's a library with great potential and awesome features, but right now needs fixing and polishing rather than new features.

Any plans for developing Sensei Grid past what your use case requires? I hear all the cool kids get to paste cell ranges into their grid plugins :)

I feel the same way, because I really liked Handsontable.

Sensei Grid will be kept simple, but additional functionality will be provided through plugins. I don't want to flood the core grid with functionality that would lead to complexity. However smart pasting is something I would consider including in the core.

Btw I just updated README.me file and added goals, blog posts and other info related to Sensei Grid - https://github.com/datazenit/sensei-grid/blob/master/README....

Excellent. Good luck - I'll be keeping an eye on it.

I know that warpech and his team (the author of handsontable) offer commercial support for handsontable. Have you tried reaching out to them and asking to get specific bugs fixed? I'm only suggesting it because you mentioned gittip as a way to push open source dev. forward on your blog entry.

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