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Desktop liberation
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Desktop liberation is a personal blog at ramblings.mcpher.com about programming and data. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers LibreOffice 3.6.0 internals. One commenter cites the desktop-software topic while asking what it would take to implement VBA on Lua or V8 for browser-based spreadsheets.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Desktop Liberation aims to help you use cloud based APIS and services without being constrained by your desktop software.
What Hacker News says?
VBA is the big beast - but here is a question from me. What will it take to implement VBA on top of Lua (or any other lightweight,embedded runtimes/VM). Hell, what will it take to implement VBA on top of the V8 engine [1] ? If one can achieve that, then you can pretty much build a spreadsheet as a browser plugin for 80% of the cases. For the rest 20% pathological cases - fine, reboot to windows. Now, thats's an idea…
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on “LibreOffice 3.6.0: behind the scenes”Submitted Integrating VBA with GitHub as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most popular topic on this site – Excel to JSON or JSON to Excel as a story · 2 points
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