While cleaning up my WSL2 a little, I re-discovered this:

https://github.com/ecere/ecere-sdk

I found it after I was disappointed in V and it's /horrendous/ lambda/anon function syntax and parser-bias. V has vendor-lockin and it's neigh impressive; certain parsing rules enforce the use of their internal library - which will import just about all the bloat it can. xD

eC does not build natively on Windows, unfortunately, but it looks nice o.o