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Is anyone here familiar with <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_Software> ? I'm interested in the idea of "next-gen spreadsheets" and this came up a number of times in my research. I like the idea of periodicity of data.

Javelin is before my time, but at one point i prototyped a UI on top of Qt using pandas as the engine. There's something to be said for having a more structured spreadsheet interface for the equivalent of dataframes. I also have the Javelin Plus 3.5 manual in pdf form if you are interested

Sorry, I mean the Qt UI was modeled after was Quantrix Modeler, which I believe was inspired by Javelin. There's a vim like open source app which might be the sccuessor to Javelin, but I can't seem to remember the name.

Found it - visidata - <https://www.visidata.org/>

Thanks <@U0112C10V4Y> :slightly_smiling_face:  yes I've played around with visidata, cool stuff! the thing that interests me most with Javelin is the data periodicity. I think it is the same general sort of idea that datomic brings to databases, the idea that if you add the time element to data, things can be said about data that are time-invariant and thus easier to reason about and work with.