While I might have been concerned about this at one point in time, emacs and gcc are some of the most ported pieces of software in existence. That said, there h

While I might have been concerned about this at one point in time, emacs and gcc are some of the most ported pieces of software in existence. That said, there have been some discussions about trying to work toward a specification for how things like org-babel should work so that other platforms can replicate the behavior inside of emacs. However, as others have stated elsewhere in the comments, once you accept emacs into your life there isn't really much incentive to spend time standardizing interfaces for things that can be handled more informally and as needed by the users. As a result those efforts need some internal incentive (like better or clearer documentation) to have development time allocated to them.