This is an example of an Emacs set up using literate programming with Org-mode. This is simply my personal set-up and thus reflects my needs as a linguist — a lot of this is writing with LaTeX and Markdown, but some programming support as well. This is a version of my long-growing init file that I have cleaned up using use-package and more lately straight.el with inspiration from other people’s generously shared ideas (most obviously Noah Frederick’s).
Some things are defined in the private.el file, which I’m not sharing here. I provide an example file which you can fill with the values you need — just make sure to rename the example file.
Finally, if a particular package is giving you trouble, you can always temporarily disable it. To do this, insert :disabled t after (use-package package-name.
Happy hacking!