On: Leo Editor

[zokier]

> imagine keeping code in Emacs's Org mode and being able to compile it.

Something like this

https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret

The whole source code is in literate form in one org file.

[keithnz → zokier]

well that is very cool. Unfortunately the original HN posts title failed to mention that was meant for embedded control systems which is probablly why I missed reading it! The HN post can be found here :-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14951116

and the literate source code is here ...

https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret/blob/master/ferret.org

[grok2 → zokier]

Nice. Someone actually used Literate programming to write something useful :-). The ferret org-mode info is very readable.

[sparkie → grok2]

Perhaps the most insane example of literate programming is Axiom [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_(computer_algebra_system...], which is several books worth.

It wasn't originally written in literate style, but it was a very large codebase which almost nobody understood. Tim Daly put an enormous amount of effort into making it literate, so that anybody can be introduced to it.