Awl

A calculator built on a text-editor, ideal for programmers.

Executables for windows can be downlaoded on the releases page.

Idea

The main idea behind the app is to make a calculator, that truly fits its domain - a desktop PC.

• Why should a calculator have buttons, when you have keyboard underneath your hands?
• Why can't I type entire expressions, but instead have to do the chaining nonsense?
• Why use memory like M+, instead of this x = 42?

These are some of the design influencing factors:

• easily recall values from past calculations and make Ctrl + C a breeze => make it text-editor based
• perform atleast some symbolic calculations
• keep mathematical notation (2x for 2*x), but make impossible squiggles easier to write (3 // 27 for nthroot(3, 27))
• but most importantly, make a calcualtor, that's actually fun to use

Current state

Awl is currently just a simple proof of concept. Give me some time, and I'll implement more features and write some docs.

Glued together from

• Electron
• Ace
• math.js
• nearley.js