Joining @Kartik Agaram in the Lua club. I got Lua running in the browser (using wasmoon) and ported my spreadsheet experiments to it: https://ezhik.jp/spreadsheet-3/ I think I'd like to experiment more with properties. I've already got the ability to change styling of cells, but what if we could go even further? Move cells around? Make them round? Make them spin? Make them not cells but images? I want to mess with the spreadsheet formula (pun intended) even further.

Allow entry of Lua code directly into cells

You actually can! I'm just not exposing much of Lua built-ins right now.

so, write the spreadsheet code using the spreadsheet ...

Cells in cells in cells in cells... Interesting!

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