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GridCraft: an open-source, clean-room spreadsheet in pure Rust. By ArtCraft.

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GridCraft: an open-source, clean-room spreadsheet in pure Rust. By ArtCraft.

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Oct 12	2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC	2026-10-13 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
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asanineassasin·Oct 24, 2026

In a world- with https://github.com/storytold/gridcraft - who still needs excell? In such a world- where its obvious that MS Office is easy replaceable with whatever some singularity demon created - longterm government migration plans like this make no sense?

In Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office

fofoz·Oct 16, 2026Submission

GridCraft: An open-source, clean-room spreadsheet (MS Excel-style) in pure Rust

3 points · Open discussion

cobychapple·Oct 12, 2026

I see that in addition to the Adobe suite apps last week, they've also now done implementations of excel/spreadsheet (https://github.com/storytold/gridcraft), powerpoint/presentation (https://github.com/storytold/deckcraft), and also AutoCAD/3D modeling (https://github.com/storytold/cadcraft) as well. What a time to be alive.

In An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust

NookDavoos·Oct 11, 2026

https://github.com/storytold/wordcraft https://github.com/storytold/gridcraft

In Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications

MiroslavPokorny·Oct 11, 2026

Gridcraft is not comparable with Excel. For starters it is not localised, the English months are hardcoded in the source. https://github.com/storytold/gridcraft/blob/main/crates/engi... > const MONTHS: [&str; 12] = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"]; The functions crate has ZERO tests for its functions. https://github.com/storytold/gridcraft/tree/main/crates/func...

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