bakeware VS bakeware

I've not used either of them myself, but I think they fit some of your requirements (simple programs, efficient, events, no memory management). There seem to be libraries for constraint programming. It does run on a VM with a GC though. And while programs can be compiled to binaries, they're not tiny.

There’s a couple of approaches to this problem going on:

1. Bakeware “bakes” your application together with the entire Erlang/OTP/Beam/Elixir stack into a single binary. Given the “batteries included” philosophy of OTP, these binaries end up being fairly large, but it works: https://github.com/bake-bake-bake/bakeware

2. Lumen compiles Elixir, Erlang and friends into WASM. This will in time enable small fast cross-platform static binaries, but it is not done yet: https://getlumen.org/

That one is out of date, the one it forked of is not: https://github.com/bake-bake-bake/bakeware

I've read that the Javascript runtime Deno is able to compile to a static binary and has a standard lib that is practically a port of Gos standard library....i feel the static binary deal is quite a game changer today given its portability in devops ....Elixir is able to compile to static binaries as well with bakeware 😊https://github.com/bake-bake-bake/bakeware

It's already possible with https://github.com/bake-bake-bake/bakeware ✌️😊

It’s not quite the same story but https://github.com/spawnfest/bakeware builds elixir releases into distributable executables.

It sounds like you want to make an escript. Using a full application or initializing stuff by hand is all up to you really. I would always use an app supervisor because OTP is awesome, but I understand where you're coming from. Even if you decide to go full app, you could use https://github.com/spawnfest/bakeware/ to package the whole app into an executable.