knot VS emacs-init-generator

Literate programming seems to becoming popular in the R community due to KnitR and Rmarkdown. This seems to have sparked a few similar-working tools with possibly broader scope and adoption. In my bookmarks I find:

- knot [1]: tangles source code from a text file formatted using plain markdown syntax, can use any markdown converter for weaving into a printable document

- snarl [2]: extends markdown code blocks with syntax used for tangling, its "weave" steps just removes the additional syntax and outputs plain markdown

- pylit [3] [4]: a bidirectional converter: code to formatted text and back. Uses reST for formatting, and preserves line numbers which is useful when debugging. Not an LP tool strictly, as it doesn't define/rearrange code blocks so you have to write your script in the order the compiler wants it, not in the order that would make the best exposition.

Both seem to preserve relative indentation of chunks, so would be useful for Python too.

[1]: https://github.com/mqsoh/knot

I'm a fan of https://github.com/mqsoh/knot/

I have written an init file generator for Emacs completely in org mode. I don't use babel, I generate my own lisp from the org file so I can apply some optimizations to the code. My next version is not on the Github yet, I have almost finished it but have few things to add. The version on Github can give you an idea of how it works. In short it is a crossover between Emacs init file and an application to work with that init file.

To understand, you may read Readme from https://github.com/amno1/emacs-init-generator as well as comments in generator.org.