Thank you for this thorough analysis. I've built an extension myself with React and TypeScript an honestly I don't know why I would need an extra tooling to make this work. The docs supplied by Google are quite good!
> I'm going to be quite honest, but I do believe what holds together the countries I mentioned is their faith, which is Hinduism and Buddhism respectively
Can you elaborate on how Hinduism makes it better?
There's also a JS version which I slightly modified to make a retro visualisation for some music (work in progress ;P) http://lnrtw.cz/kyyb/
I've never owned a TRS-80 but I enjoyed using this a lot, completely different way of thinking about coding (for a person that started with modern languages like Python)