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>What is the use case here?

Clicking through on the link that says "more discussion here" [1] the OP does at least explain the original problem with Excel that he was trying to address:

>Mesh was started because I couldn't find a way in Excel to output the results of a formula across an arbitrary number of cells. ...

This is definitely on the right lines.

But it's a very difficult problem, both from a UI design point of view and actually producing a performant implementation in Javascript.

[1] http://chrispsn.com/mesh-preview.html



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