As you say, it's not a new idea. Quite a few of the Y Combinator startups were working on some idea along these lines - check out https://www.youos.com/. There are some links to other Ajax spreadsheets here. But the network effect and the Google brand will give the Google spreadsheet a serious edge.
Editors: I remember thinking when SubEthaEdit came out, that it should really be a protocol rather than an application, so any editor could talk it. SubEthaEdit used serialised Carbon objects IIRC, so was Mac-specific. It doesn't look like Gobby's gone down the formal-protocol road, which IMHO is a mistake, but at least they're cross-platform, and maybe they'll document the protocol in the future.
TBH, it would not be such a bad thing if Emacs and vi withered and died - they've both accumulated a lot of cruft in their 30 years of life. Provided their replacements are up to the same standard, of course :-)
That zoho stuff looks pretty cool - though they do seem to have started charging for some of it. Like you say though, the Google brand is big - I reckon in a place where you'd get fired for switching corporate document storage to zoho, you'd probably get away with switching to a verb like Google.
Gobby doesn't seem to be stable enough to have formal protocol spec yet, but at least they've separated the concern out into the obby library...
And yeah - vim and emacs are both showing their age a bit. Personally, I'm rooting for Yi, but there's not enough momentum behind that just yet...
It's actually something we were talking about on #haskell the other day... The lambdabot is a pretty invaluable haskell development tool, particularly since it encapsulates hoogle, the pointless plugin, etc
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Editors: I remember thinking when SubEthaEdit came out, that it should really be a protocol rather than an application, so any editor could talk it. SubEthaEdit used serialised Carbon objects IIRC, so was Mac-specific. It doesn't look like Gobby's gone down the formal-protocol road, which IMHO is a mistake, but at least they're cross-platform, and maybe they'll document the protocol in the future.
TBH, it would not be such a bad thing if Emacs and vi withered and died - they've both accumulated a lot of cruft in their 30 years of life. Provided their replacements are up to the same standard, of course :-)
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Gobby doesn't seem to be stable enough to have formal protocol spec yet, but at least they've separated the concern out into the obby library...
And yeah - vim and emacs are both showing their age a bit. Personally, I'm rooting for Yi, but there's not enough momentum behind that just yet...
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It's actually something we were talking about on #haskell the other day... The lambdabot is a pretty invaluable haskell development tool, particularly since it encapsulates hoogle, the pointless plugin, etc ( ... )
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Here is a comparison between EditGrid vs Google Spreadsheet.
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