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I wrote this on Quora 8 years ago, and it's still true: https://qr.ae/pypHJw https://qr.ae/pypHJw It's my answer to what I can tell you agree is the most impo
by stickfigure 4y ago
I wrote this on Quora 8 years ago, and it's still true:
https://qr.ae/pypHJw https://qr.ae/pypHJw
It's my answer to what I can tell you agree is the most important question in software engineering - "What programming language has the shortest 'Hello World' program?"
- operatingthetan 4y agoWe're talking about a framework here, not a programming language. I don't think the above poster's assessment about the amount of files needed for hello world offers a charitable conclusion either, given frameworks are not languages. The same file usage would apply to many other popular 'heavy' opinionated frameworks.
- stickfigure 4y agoMy point is, nobody writes Hello World webapps for a living. The number of lines or files is irrelevant. There is precisely zero value in this metric.
- operatingthetan 4y agoSorry, I misread your comment.
- baq 4y agoThere’s a grain of truth in that thought. First impressions matter, frameworks aren’t exempt from that basic psychological fact. If you treat ’complexity of hello world’ as a proxy for learning curve steepness (again, people do things like that subconsciously), you may end with a very wrong assessment very early. It’ll probably tell more about the assessor than the framework but it’s a real risk.
- dwaite 4y agoIndeed - if my goal is a minimal Hello, World, I don't even need javascript, I can put "Hello World" in a text file and name it index.html. Problem is, this doesn't lead me to solve any harder problems.