[SilentM68]

Unfortunately, bloatware is the reality and that is depressing :(

I wish things were like the 90s and software dev environments like Rebol [ http://www.rebol.com ] were still king.

It was simple to use, small executables, expressive, but no longer maintained :(

[brabel]

There's a descendant of Rebol that is maintained: https://www.red-lang.org/

[SilentM68]

Yes, I was aware of RED since it was proposed but I have not checked its progress to see how it has evolved.

[pbronez]

Red looks pretty cool. Will try it out once they reach 1.0!