something similar to this is also why I appreciate that Lichen-Markdown is written in PHP and is only 4 php files (+ the markdown parser). The newer version of Lichen was re-written in Forth, which makes sense to some folks in terms of permacomputing, but Forth is also a less popular and somewhat more esoteric language. PHP sort of feels like a popular folk technology to me, in the spectrum, in some ways.