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>But why literate programming isn't more popular is beyond me.

One issue with literate programming is that it advertised a single narrative for code. Only code is data, and there are always many narratives about data. This change might look cosmetic, but it is actually fundamental.

In Glamorous Toolkit, beside having multiple views, we also embedded an interactive notebook right in the development environment and through it we tell interactive stories about the inside the system.




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