Hello World in Lucee would simply be: echo "Hello World" > hello.cfm I think the thing that's missing here is the context on the history. For most people

Hello World in Lucee would simply be: echo "Hello World" > hello.cfm I think the thing that's missing here is the context on the history. For most people using this project, they've come from CF (Adobe). It was "Hey, using CF and having a hard time with Adobe's code quality? We've made an opensource alternative! It's identical, but without the bugs and with these extra features..." And I guess the story for starting with it from scratch hasn't been more carefully considered.