Been setteled on https://scintilla.org/SciTE.html It has simplicity + extensible for any language, you can create your own linter + highlighter

Its nothing bloated, its not embedded ide like vscode and all

Rather scite is just gui frontend for cli based binaries, it uses programming environments you have installed on your os

Just like old time on cmd or sh, we used compilers eg javac or cpp

Now scite just make it easy, its exactly same as borland turbo, you add path to your compiler binaries in scite and done you click compile or run,

Plus its lightweight and portable, carry it in usb and run on any computer by just setting paths to compiler and executor binaries