Hi everyone! The Shakti k version of Mesh is under development, but for now you can try the JavaScript prototype: <a href="http://mesh-spreadsheet.com/" rel="nofollow">http://mesh-spreadsheet.com/</a><p>Slides (view in Powerpoint slideshow mode to see the animated GIFs): <a href="https://github.com/chrispsn/presos/raw/master/2020-02-26%20Mesh%20Shakti%20intro.pptx" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chrispsn/presos/raw/master/2020-02-26%20M...</a><p>And past demo videos of the JS prototype:<p>- Basics: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U6gE3cNgbI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U6gE3cNgbI</a><p>- Dynamic tables: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x32tBLGrLAQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x32tBLGrLAQ</a>
I'm reminded of Siag (<a href="http://siag.nu/siag/" rel="nofollow">http://siag.nu/siag/</a>, Scheme In A Grid).
What is Shakti? I’ve spent 20 minutes browsing around and nowhere does it tell me, so I have no idea what the context of this even is.<p>EDIT: Ok, I found it: <a href="https://shakti.com/" rel="nofollow">https://shakti.com/</a> although I’m still unsure what it does. I guess some kind of stream processor database.
In a past life I've made extensive use of the q/kdb excel plugin to do my financial analysis (backtesting, model fitting etc).<p>The basic setup was:<p>1. set up a q server and load lots of price data and signal tables in memory
2. open a connection to the server from your spreadsheet
3. write q queries in excel directly.<p>Because q is so compact you could essentially write a (quite long) one line aproximate backtester, as long as your q server stored daily prices, volumes, advs etc in a sensible way.<p>The spreadsheet form factor was pretty good - it was nice to be able to plot arbitrary series and generally made it quite fast to work with data.<p>It was by no means perfect, but I found it infinitely better than setups like jupyter notebooks.
I don't get it. Maybe he lost me at the beginning when he showed an example of a table that was apparently supposed to be easy to grok but I just found puzzling.
I'm honestly unable to make sense of this given the poor "camera pointed at projector screen" quality. Website looks intriguing, but I can't figure out how to do anything in the browser demo besides simple numeric calculations inside single cells.
One thing that I like about Google Sheets is the ability to query the sheets with SQL. Only complaint is that the queries aren't super powerful and I can't use names. This would be super helpful. A powerful query language in a more powerful spreadsheet.
Cool project, but the title is a bit confusing:<p>> <i>"A code editor that feels like a spreadsheet"</i><p>It literally is a spreadsheet though right? Is there something that separates this from an google sheet?<p>Also, the source repository on [1] Github is a bit more informative (for this audience).<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/chrispsn/mesh" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chrispsn/mesh</a>
Came here excited to see an operational spreadsheet program on Shakti ( <a href="https://shakti.org.in/" rel="nofollow">https://shakti.org.in/</a> ) :)<p>More excited to discover ShaktiDB!<p>Curious to know how this relates to kona! [ <a href="https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona</a> ]