# storytold/gridcraft

> An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Excel in pure Rust, running natively on macOS, Windows, Linux and BSD, and in the browser via WebAssembly.

- Magnitude: 4.4 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 97 total · +24 stars measured 2026-10-07, 15:24–17:10 UTC, ≈ 30 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-10-07 · Last push: 2026-10-07
- GitHub: https://github.com/storytold/gridcraft · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/storytold/gridcraft

## Useful for

- Open and edit XLSX workbooks with formulas, charts and PivotTables
- Automate spreadsheet edits via MCP, CLI or a JSON control channel
- Evaluate formulas headlessly with gridcraft-cli eval

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-07 (UTC), 15:24–17:10: 73 → 97 stars (+24). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +31 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 0 days old and already has 97 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #152.
- About 141 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 50
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Average over the last week: 30 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 12

## Stars per day, last 4 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-10-07: 0, 0, 0, 24

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #152

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-07 17:27 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.