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PLDB is a public domain ScrollSet and website containing over 135,000 facts about over 5,000 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 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