Age?
Discussion
https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
The author, for example, has more followers on X than GnuPG.org, and he is also a security lead for the Golang programming language, from Google.
Interesting. Thank you. It appears that there’s no (obvious) way in which this supports email encryption?
Well, it has an -a parameter for ASCII armor, same as GnuPG has, but no signing capabilities. So you can paste encrypted messages into your email client.
And thanks for the zap, much appreciated!