>>10
Do you mean Suckless/cat-v fellas? I like 0-dependencies C programs as you can the what they precisely do.
>>11
#f. There are a lot of Clojure rewrites. Emacs users rewrite the world in ELisp.
>>12
#t
Also I suppose nim or zig is not so-bad language to rewrite programs in. Suddenly some bloated programs have no alternatives and there's an actual need for that.