Developer ships StatCraft, an open-source SPSS alternative written in safe Rust
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Developer kobaltgit has rewritten IBM SPSS Statistics from scratch in 100% pure Safe Rust and released it as StatCraft, an open-source statistics package meant to replace SPSS. The project appeared on the Hacker News front page on November 8, 2026, and is dual-licensed under Apache-2.0 and MIT. The report covers the release, the implementation language and the licensing only; it gives no details on feature scope or compatibility with SPSS.
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- Hacker News front pageI'm Rewriting IBM SPSS Statistics in 100% Safe Rust, Alone
开发者 kobaltgit 以 100% 纯 Safe Rust 从零重写 IBM SPSS Statistics，推出开源统计软件包 StatCraft，采用 Apache-2.0 与 MIT 双许可。
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