I'll tell you one thing, building software that isn't trivial isn't easy. You are expecting it to be a turnkey solution on your first try. Honestly there are so

I'll tell you one thing, building software that isn't trivial isn't easy. You are expecting it to be a turnkey solution on your first try. Honestly there are some turnkey solutions out there but you have to do your research and quit being so negative. You might as well accept that 95% of most modern software is "heavy" unless you are writing a C based command line app. About the lightest software (but hard to write) on Windows will be Win32 if you're looking to write Windows apps that are light on memory. Personally I think C# is probably the best all around place to get started on Windows for GUI coding. Python is probably the easiest for command line stuff.