You can run pretty much any programming language from within org-mode and have literate lab/reports/configurations. Since org is tightly integrated with Emacs,

You can run pretty much any programming language from within org-mode and have literate lab/reports/configurations. Since org is tightly integrated with Emacs, there's also much more interaction with code in general (Emacs Lisp) which lets you do pretty crazy things. Like run and output SQL queries to your document or have interaction à la Jupyter Notebook.