I've been using it for years and was surprised to see a new version after a dacade.

After installing it, I was surprised to see that the immediate changes most noticeable to me were that the input box was unnecessarily doubled in size, enclosed in an unnecessary border, and surrounded by unnecessary dead space; and that there's now marked input lag that never existed in the original version.

I never had a single problem with 0.12 over the past ten years, and use it nearly every day -- no bugs, no missing features.

I appreciate the desire to improve and innovate, but you know, sometimes, software really is finished.

I use https://qalculate.github.io/news.html a lot. The UI is not exceptional but it's very powerful (I'm a former SpeedCrunch user)

List of changes for this calculator [0].

I used to use it quite a bit, but I now gravitate towards numbat instead [1].

[0]: https://www.speedcrunch.org/download.html

[1]: https://github.com/sharkdp/numbat

speedcrunch is wonderful but I had this pet peeve with it where it had a hardcoded limit of 5 digits before it drops to scientific notation. Not very useful for shell scripts and programming.

I opened an issue while it was on bitbucket, but the response was something "yeah, that's intentional".

I see they bumped it to 14 digits now.

for years I've had a custom build of it with

src/math/hmath.cpp:

- if (expd > 5) + if (expd > 25)

blessed be the open source!

This is nice to see, and it looks like this release (and maybe some earlier ones?) includes a small order of operations bug fix that hadn't been released for a long time. 1/2(-9.8) now equals -4.9 rather than -0.05102040816326530612. I like how the expression also renders with a multiplication symbol to clarify: 1 / 2 × (−9.8)

I used to be a speedcrunch user and it was my introduction to "good calculator apps" However after surveying the options a while back I switched to numbat. The main advantage is that it's easy to define your own units on the fly.

A huge amount of simple calculation errors can be avoided by just using units.

I'm using it for a long time already. 1.0 and 1.1 are the first updates after 10 years now?

to bad all functions dealing with prims are missing. isPrime, nextPrime, factorize prime factors

For people who’ve used both: how’s it compare to Soulver?

Love speedcrunch it has been sitting on my taskbar for many years always my go-to for quick scratchpad for equations, etc.

Related:

SpeedCrunch - https://smackernews.com/item/29661485 HN - Dec 2021 (131 comments)

Speedcrunch (calculator) - https://smackernews.com/item/460520 HN - Feb 2009 (2 comments)

Huge fan of SpeedCrunch!! Was sad to see the formula was somewhat recently disabled on brew: https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/speedcrunch ... anyone know if this means it could be re-enabled?

Just try this one. There will be some big update from the developer.

https://antovsky.itch.io/naut

Why do you do this when you have Pari GP?

Speedcrunch might finally beat out opening a terminal w/ the R interpreter for me

Amazing! This is the most useful calculator.. bit shifts..radix conversations...

I've been using it for years after struggling missing the windows 2000 calculator.

What's the best scientific calculator for Android?

I recently opened a github issue about the system UI looking dark. I got a response an hour later which appears to be AI written, I responded to it and it looks like my request has been accepted.

I absolutely do not mind it being AI driven. I have not seen this before in this. The response was not slop, just very formal and verbose.

I use speed crunch almost every day mostly to see bits and bit shift operations visually. It's just strange to see requesting feature, getting an automated further inquiry, and then a response that yeah that sounds good to do.

I also recently made a fairly complete scientific calculator. I first asked Claude what functions it would put in it, then I made some modifications (added complex numbers), and told it to write the calculator. It looked perfect in one shot. This is really how simple this kind of thing has become.