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Dev tools · September 10, 2019

The Whole Code Catalog

The Whole Code Catalog launched on September 10, 2019 with 156 votes, #161 of 3,296 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

In plain words

The Whole Code Catalog is a dev tool launched in 2019 that serves as a searchable reference for code and programming concepts. It targets developers and programmers seeking organized access to coding knowledge and examples. The tool distinguishes itself by providing a structured, catalog-based approach to browsing and discovering code resources, making it useful for those who want to quickly locate relevant programming information.

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From the sources

Over the past year and a half, I've been collaborating with Dark (a new programming language startup) to research programming languages and tools. Today we are sharing these reviews publicly. The Whole Earth Catalog was before my time, but I grew up immersed in many of the conversations it began. This series borrows its name, and continues in its tradition of "access to tools". Stewart Brand’s original inspiration for the Catalog was helping his "friends who were starting their own civilization hither and yon in the sticks." This series is likewise designed to help visionary friends, but where his friends were living off-the-grid, my friends are creating the programming environments of the…from futureofcoding.org

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