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An open source office suite written in Swift
Starling Office 0.1.0, built with Claude, edits DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files with native and browser builds from shared Swift code.
Credits
- Reddit poster starling-dev Source ↗
Earliest dated source:
The full story
Starling Office is a free, open source suite with Writer, Sheets and Slides that opens, edits and saves DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files. It has native builds for Linux, macOS and Windows, plus browser versions compiled from Swift to WebAssembly, sharing the same Swift application and UI code.
The poster says working with Claude meant a lot of iteration: opening real documents, checking rendering, testing saved files and fixing what broke. It is an early 0.1 release with known issues listed in the release notes.
How it was done
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Sources
From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I used Claude to build a desktop. Now it has a standalone office suite written in Swift.Reddit poster: starling-devPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: I used Claude to build a desktop. Now it has a standalone office suite written in Swift. (opens in a new tab)
- The project: openoffice.starling.build
The browser apps.