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A Programming Language Database

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PLDB is a public domain ScrollSet and website containing over 135,000 facts about over 4,000 programming languages.

This repo contains the entire ScrollSet, code, and website for https://pldb.io.

To download the data

The entire ScrollSet is ready to analyze in popular formats. Full documentation is here: https://pldb.io/csv.html

To add a new language

Local Method:

Web Method:

To update a language

Edit the corresponding concepts/*.scroll file and send a pull request.

To add a new measure

Update the file code/measures.parsers and add at least 1 measurement to a concept in concepts and send a pull request.

To build the site locally

git clone https://github.com/breck7/pldb cd pldb # Required to run this during first install only. npm i -g cloc # Required to run this on fresh checkout and when upgrading from an old checkout or periodically when there are new releases npm install . # (Optional) Run tests npm run test npm run build # After you make changes and before you commit make sure to run: npm run format

To explore this repo

The most important folder is concepts, which contains the ScrollSet (a file for each concept). The file code/measures.parsers contains the Parsers (schema) for the ScrollSet.

You can see the cloc language stats on this repo at https://pldb.io/pages/about.html.

Citation

PLDB content is published to the public domain and you can use it freely. If needed, here are 3 options for citing PLDB:

https://pldb.io
PLDB contributors. (2024) - "PLDB: a Programming Language Database". Retrieved from: 'https://pldb.io' [Online Resource]
@article{pldb, author = {PLDB contributors}, title = {PLDB: a Programming Language Database}, journal = {PLDB}, year = {2024}, note = {https://pldb.io} }

All sources for PLDB can be found here: https://pldb.io/pages/acknowledgements.html

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