notebook-mode VS geom

I think the work Nicolas Rougier has done on "beautifying" Emacs (including org-mode) is about the best that's been done, examples and code:

https://github.com/rougier/notebook-mode

It's a tangent, but this looks really cool: https://github.com/rougier/notebook-mode

You might also find inspiration from Nicolas Rougier's org mode setup: https://github.com/rougier/notebook-mode and https://github.com/rougier/org-bib-mode have screenshots which show very little color put on headlines.

I think u/Nicolas-Rougier is moving in that direction with his notebook work.

There’s some work in this space, such as Nicolas Rougier’s promising notebook-mode[1]. I’m convinced there would be an audience for an OrgBook app that philosophically treated Emacs as an implementation detail. Give it more familiar keybindings, some out of the box nice looking themes, and configure the new context menu functionality as you suggest. Then package it up as something that can be run and installed with or without an existing Emacs.

It’s hard to imagine experienced Emacsers wanting to lead a project that solves a problem they don’t have, but the community is very friendly so whoever took it on would get plenty of help.

[1] https://github.com/rougier/notebook-mode

Code at https://github.com/rougier/notebook-mode

On the flip side, I got to read some of the Clojure source code, which was very educational. I also got to understand a bit more the usefulness of protocols (using defprotocol and defrecord to provide several implementations). Here it was very useful to read the source code of thi-ng/geom.

This would make sense if Knuth used literate programming primarily for academic papers. But in fact he created WEB for writing TeX and METAFONT, both of which (while their source code was published as a book later) were production systems, and in fact for several decades now he uses CWEB for all programs he writes, including several a week that he writes for himself. (Some of which are online at https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html .) In contrast, apart from the paper he wrote introducing LP, and the two Bentley columns about LP in CACM, I'm not aware of any other academic paper of his that presents programs — at any rate, the total number must be very small.

The goal is not an "academic paper"; his experience (and that of others who have seriously tried LP) is that it helps with actual writing of programs, less time spent debugging, etc.

Yes, there are challenges with two or more programmers, but nothing unsurmountable. See "Literate Programming on a Team Project" (https://www.cs.princeton.edu/techreports/1991/302.pdf coauthored by Norman Ramsey, who later developed noweb) and some stories like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17484452 (and https://github.com/thi-ng/geom which went from LP to conventional).