[yumiris]

Literate programming has been particularly useful for my "dotfile" configurations, such as .emacs, .vimrc, .zshrc and even the .gitconfig file.

I use one .org file to declare all of my configurations, and tangle them together into the aforementioned files. This keeps things pretty portable, and makes up for the unintuitive readability of many dotfiles.

It can also work for rudimentary shell scripts and other single-file goodies; however, scaling it to proper multi-file programs proves to be difficult, especially when multiple developers are involved.

[syntaxfree]

This is a cool idea. Also so if you switch tools like WMs you know what you used to have even if it takes some work to reconstruct what that was. But have such a tangle of glued together and custom written tiling WM rice that I can never switch to anything every again.