You jest, but I did end up doing just that in my implementation (https://github.com/romforth/romforth) trying to shoehorn a Forth implementation into a MSP430 device with just 2KB ROM + 128 byte RAM
Tree Walk Format (TWF) is a flat file format to describe your family tree.
It allows you to describe your family tree in one (or more) files which are editable using your
favorite text editor.
I see it as a viable alternative to GUIs such as Gramps or TUIs such as llines(Lifelines).
Currently it is Unix/Linux only since it uses groff/dot to generate the graph depicting the family tree.
The git repo has a script that turns the flat file you created into a pdf depicting your family tree.
I assume Windows users may be able to use it too using WSL.
It should be possible to generate an equivalent GEDCOM from the TWF input, but that is not implemented yet.
Some additional usage info including examples of family trees from the Bible which are denoted using the TWF
format are available at: https://ces.mataroa.blog/blog/twf_ftwmd
Allow me to brag about romforth (https://github.com/romforth/romforth) which I ported to the "3c" Padauk and can run on really small rom/ram microcontrollers.
Caveats:
- tested only on an emulator SDCC/ucsim_pdk, not on real hardware
- given how small the ram is, there is no user dictionary but new words can be defined and tested using what the Forth folks refer to as "umbilical hosting".
I've been faithfully using the same window manager [olvwm] for ~30 years and counting. In fact the decision about which [distro] I pick for daily use is totally dependent on whether it can be coaxed into running [xview]+olvwm.