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GitHub - breck7/pldb: The Programming Language Database
source link: https://github.com/breck7/pldb
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The Programming Language Database
PLDB is a public domain database and blog containing over 100,000 facts about over 4,000 programming languages.
This repo contains the entire database, blog, and code for https://pldb.com.
To analyze the data
The PLDB database is freely available:
// npm install pldb
console.log(require("pldb").javascript.appeared)
Documentation for the columns is available here: https://pldb.com/docs/columns.html.
To add a new language
Easy method: https://edit.pldb.com/create
Advanced method: Create a new file in database/things
with a unique URL friendly filename ending in .pldb
and send a pull request.
To update a language
Easy method: https://edit.pldb.com/
Advanced method: Edit the corresponding database/things/*.pldb
file and send a pull request.
To build the full site locally
git clone https://github.com/breck7/pldb
cd pldb
npm install .
npm run build
open pldb.local/index.html
To explore this repo
The most important folder is database/things/
, which contains a file for each entity. The folder database/grammar/
contains the grammar files (schema) for the database.
The blog content is in the blog
folder.
The code
folder contains importer scripts and other code for the database and site.
To cite PLDB
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.com
Breck Yunits et al. (2022) - "The Programming Language Database". Retrieved from: 'https://pldb.com' [Online Resource]
@article{pldb,
author = {Breck Yunits et al.},
title = {The Programming Language Database},
journal = {PLDB},
year = {2022},
note = {https://pldb.com}
}
All sources for PLDB can be found here: https://pldb.com/pages/acknowledgements.html
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