noweb ☆

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Description:
WEB-like literate-programming tool

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: literate-programming documentation code-generation developer-tools latex

Install: brew install noweb

About:
Noweb is a literate programming tool that allows developers to write code and documentation in a single source file. It extracts both the documentation and the source code, formatting the docs for human readability and the code for compilation. This approach prioritizes explaining the program's logic to humans, making complex codebases easier to understand and maintain.

Key Features:

Language-agnostic toolchain
Simplifies code documentation and logic explanation
Generates both pretty-printed documentation and compilable source code
Lightweight and scriptable

Use Cases:

Creating comprehensive documentation for complex algorithms
Maintaining academic papers or technical reports with embedded code
Generating dual-format outputs (HTML/LaTeX for docs, raw code for compilers)

Alternatives:

CWEB – A similar literate programming tool by Knuth and Levy, often used with TeX.
Jupyter Notebooks – Interactive environment for code and text, primarily for Python/R, whereas Noweb is language-independent and file-based.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 16, 2025 4:09pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	7c7ba303