mbutterick/pollen

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1205 stars · 63 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Pollen is a book-publishing system written in Racket that treats documents as programs, letting authors embed a full programming language within their text. It supports Markdown authoring, free-form markup, and multi-output publishing for web-based books.

Use cases

• publish web-based books with programmable documents
• use Racket as a text preprocessor for CSS and other assets
• author content in Markdown with embedded code
• generate multiple output formats from one source
• build documentation sites with custom markup

When to choose

• you want documents to be programmable with a full language
• you publish long-form web books and care about typography
• you already know or like Racket

When to avoid

• you want a conventional static site generator with a large plugin ecosystem
• you prefer not to learn Racket or Lisp syntax
• you need a turnkey blogging platform

Facets

framework · maturity stable

static-site-generator templating markdown web-development documentation programming-languages cross-platform cli book-publishing programmable-documents typography racket-language text-preprocessing preprocessor publishing racket

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