NetLogo/NetLogo
turtles, patches, and links for kids, teachers, and scientists observed · 2026-09-01
Health v2 · maintenance only
89/100
- Activity 100
- Release rhythm 69
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 44.5
- age_days: 5434
- days_rel: 124
- days_push: 2
- n_releases_24m: 5
Adoption not part of the score
1179 stars · 271 forks observed · 2026-09-01
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
NetLogo is a widely used agent-based modeling environment written in Scala, letting users program turtles, patches, and links to simulate complex systems. It serves both classrooms (elementary through university) and scientific research, with a desktop app, web version, and a models library.
Use cases
- build agent-based models of epidemics or traffic
- teach computational modeling to students
- simulate predator-prey ecosystems
- explore emergent behavior in complex systems
- run reproducible simulation experiments for research
- create interactive models for the classroom with HubNet
When to choose
- you need a low-threshold, high-ceiling agent-based modeling tool
- you want a mature platform with a large models library and community
- you need both educational ease and research-grade capabilities
- you want cross-platform desktop and web modeling
When to avoid
- you need high-performance large-scale simulations beyond NetLogo's JVM limits
- you want general-purpose programming rather than modeling
- you need a lightweight library to embed in another app
- you require permissive licensing (GPL-2.0)
Facets
application · maturity active
simulation programming-language gui interpreter simulation education cross-platform cross-platform jvm browser agent-based-modeling logo complex-systems modeling scala algorithms desktop
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/NetLogo/NetLogo · fetched 2026-09-01 · 431bfbf4bfd0
- homepage: https://netlogo.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 65431b147856
- site_page: https://www.netlogo.org/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 13ff2f85031b
- site_page: https://docs.netlogo.org/faq.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · d2d06cbf6ca7
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| NetLogo/NetLogo | main | 89 |
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