This is a small effort as an Nim language exercise, largely vibecoded, but used daily. So apologies if this is only remotely linked to emacs.

Over the years big research consortia started forcing paid workbenches down researchers throats. However, ssh is around for decades and emacs TRAMP and org-babel do better and more than these interfaces. Out of spite, I created a small emacs config to manage remote connections to work on server (basically I accessed genomics servers).

Well, things got worse over time and data access contracts are making it impossible to connect via TRAMP, but agree to upload a software to manage data in the virtual environment. That's how wkbenchless was born, I starting porting some of the functionalities I needed and packaged it as a single binary editor that my uni would allow me to run in the VM. It does a bunch of things already, including reading org-babel org files.

If you have a use for this, take a look at it. Found something that needs improving, please open an issue.

https://github.com/lf-araujo/wkbenchless