portia vs spiralweb

portia

ultimate literate programing preprocessor (by rixed)

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Literate programming system with a Pandoc-extended Markdown backend. (by michaeljmcd)

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portia		spiralweb
	Project
1	Mentions	1
4	Stars	4
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
OCaml	Language	Python
-	License	MIT License

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portia

Posts with mentions or reviews of portia. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-27.

Noweb – A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2021

For the record, I wrote portia[0], based on funnelweb and which accept a (mostly) compatible syntax, in a literate style. Its source/doc can be browsed [1].
I still use it from time to time, especially for small, well defined projects, because I find it useful to have to argue with myself when designing a software. It's not so much about producing a nice documentation or a proper exposition of some idea, than it is about having to formulate all the reasoning, the alternatives, and the choices.
[0]: https://github.com/rixed/portia

spiralweb

Posts with mentions or reviews of spiralweb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-27.

Noweb – A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2021

Literate Programming is one of those ideas I keep coming to. There is an idea there that touches on something I find to be true about software development, namely that the communication of an idea to other humans is the most critical piece. There is a similar idea in Naur's paper "Programming as Theory Building."
That said, I've never loved the LaTeX-centric nature of most tools. I don't like heavier markup systems while I am writing prose, which is why I wrote SpiralWeb (https://github.com/michaeljmcd/spiralweb) as a Pandoc/Markdown centric tool.