A modern “Hello, World” program requires more than just code

Re:A modern “Hello, World” program requires more than just code by superasn on Friday March 06, 2020 @12:13AM (#22501154)

Maybe I misunderstood it but why would you create a react app for writing Hello world. In Javascript you can do that in one line 'document.writeln("Hello world")'

That's equivalent of installing Laravel first just to write Hello world in PHP and saying look how big my vendor folder is.

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Re:A modern “Hello, World” program requires more than just code by Ace17 on Friday March 06, 2020 @02:04AM (#22501545)

The goal never was to print "Hello, world!" on the screen. It was to quickly check that your build and runtime environment works.

But nowadays projects are generally expected to drag-in a lot more tools/dependencies than a C compiler and its runtime.

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Re:A modern “Hello, World” program requires more than just code by pldr2244 on Friday March 06, 2020 @04:17AM (#22502120)

Because it makes for a great strawman. “Look, JS tooling is so bloated, just to emit a Hello world!”

I‘ve since stopped expecting any level of reason when it comes to HN bashing of modern JS/React/frontend.

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Re:A modern “Hello, World” program requires more than just code by chatmasta on Friday March 06, 2020 @10:12AM (#22504157)

The bashing never seems to come from people using the tooling, either.

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