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GridCraft is the open-source Excel clone for Linux I’ve been waiting for

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GridCraft is the open-source Excel clone for Linux I’ve been waiting for

If spreadsheets are your thing, but Microsoft Office isn't, you might want to give the open-source clone, GridCraft, a try.

ArtCraft, the development team behind PhotoCraft (and a number of other similar apps) reverse-engineered yet another de facto standard app: GridCraft, meant to mimic Microsoft Excel.

ArtCraft’s collection is an important step forward for open source and the Linux operating system because some of the apps they’ve built have long been considered roadblocks to user adoption of Linux. With apps like WordCraft, DeckCraft, and PDFCraft now available, those roadblocks go away. Time will tell, but these apps seem like a big step forward for Linux and open-source to me.

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Although the developers say that these apps are 1:1 replacements for the original apps, that’s not 100% accurate, and my experience with GridCraft confirms that. They are also all in the alpha stages of development, so I wouldn’t advise anyone to use them in a production environment.

You might be thinking that this is simply a rebranded MS Excel that runs on top of an interpretation or abstraction layer, but that is not the case. Like the other ArtCraft apps, GridCraft runs natively on whatever OS you are using (Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, or Windows). And because these apps were written in Rust, they are blazingly fast.

I’ve opened very large spreadsheets in GridCraft (one with 1,000 rows), and the app never so much as hiccuped.


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