Showing the bank balance would give me anxiety. I’d be afraid to make it go down. (Not in a healthy way)

I’d lean towards C# with AOT compilation if you’re not using reflection, you should be ok.

BYD. Seagull or the seal. Can’t remember which one.

Embedded. I’m currently writing software with 96 bytes of RAM. My next project I get to splurge and have 8kB of RAM and 32k of Flash.

I’m more scared with how badly I’ll handle/manage the 8k of RAM.

If you are on a tight budget and care about the environment buy used.