I am not a big fan of the complex literate programming style involving code-generation which this article talks about. But I recently discovered that Google's

I am not a big fan of the complex literate programming style involving code-generation which this article talks about. But I recently discovered that Google's zx [1] scripting utility supports executing scripts in markdown documents and I combined it with httpie [2] and usql [3] for a bit of quick and dirty automation testing and api verification code and it worked out pretty well. I imagine for most people nowadays jupyter or vscode notebooks are the closest it comes to practical literate programming. [1] https://github.com/google/zx#markdown-scripts https://github.com/google/zx#markdown-scripts [2] https://github.com/httpie/httpie https://github.com/httpie/httpie [3] https://github.com/xo/usql https://github.com/xo/usql