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nrnrnr / noweb

noweb

The noweb tool for literate programming

4Distinct people
4Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
313GitHub stars
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What it is

The noweb tool for literate programming

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

I recommend reading up on cweb and its history. The tangling and weaving metadata and prose lives in the code with special fenced blocks. Noweb is a modern version of it:…

qbasic_forever used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-03-19 20:32:44 UTC to 2025-06-20 09:22:03 UTC.

0122021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I stumbled upon Unicon because I installed the noweb [1] literate programming system from scratch some time ago. It uses Icon as an (optional) dependency to create cross-references during the weaving process. The fallback is based on Awk, but inferior in features. Anyway, if you have read this far, you should check out noweb and of course (Un)Icon. [1] https://github.com/nrnrnr/noweb
In The Unicon Programming Language

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