I was about to make a joke about how many lines are required for an electron hello world but it was even more than I expected.

11 for the HTML document template

7 for the boilerplate package.json

3 more for the scripts addition to package.json

3 more for the “devdependencies”

20 for main.js

from: https://electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/quick-start

A fairer assessment would be C++ with Qt to be honest though.

write a hello world application in gtk or qt and see how much assembly you get.

let's move the goal posts to doing it in brainfuck since we're at it

What goalpost did I supposedly move?

x86_64 assembly, gtk3, 21 lines / 19 instructions

build with e.g. gcc hw.s `pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0`

  .globl main;main:
  push %rbx
  xor %esi, %esi
  xor %edi, %edi
  call gtk_init@PLT
  lea .HW(%rip), %r8
  xor %edx, %edx
  xor %esi, %esi
  mov $2, %ecx
  xor %edi, %edi
  xor %eax, %eax
  call gtk_message_dialog_new@PLT
  mov %rax, %rbx
  mov %rax, %rdi
  call gtk_dialog_run@PLT
  mov %rbx, %rdi
  call gtk_widget_destroy@PLT
  xor %eax, %eax
  pop %rbx
  ret
  .HW:.string "Hello World!"

Are you sure you couldn’t wrap that up in another library and just do everything in a single call?

you jest, but in fact you could.

https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/SDL_ShowSimpleMessageBox

That’s super ironic that you’ve shown screenshot from a web application.

Why, thank you!