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Hello World Rebooted πŸ’‘

Omkar Ajnadkar on October 03, 2018

So, most of us try to remain skilled in more than one language...let's say possibly 4 to 5 languages and the first program we try to write in any l...
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Nick Karnik • Edited

This has been done a few times.

The Hello World Collection

Hello World on Github

Rosetta Code - Hello World

Hello World in Many Programming Languages

Perhaps what you could do differently is provide a basic program in every language and link to an online code sandbox.

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ThinkDigitalSoftware

Shhh. Don't tell him! Just submit the rest as an enormous pull request and steal all the credit!

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Nick Karnik

That cracked me up!! πŸ˜† πŸ‘ πŸ˜† πŸ‘ πŸ˜† πŸ‘ πŸ˜† πŸ‘

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Olivier Schyns

I think it would make more sense to make your list of hello worlds only with with languages that YOU know. I know around 16 programming languages. So I could make a neat little "hello world" list but one which mean something actually.

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Phil Ashby

I like this suggestion - you get an opportunity to contrast / compare different constructs in each language that can provide similar functionality, and pick out special features that make it awesome. It's a bit like a code golf challenge, do the same thing in the most: elegant / performant / insane ways.

I assume folks have met the 99 bottles website (1500 languages)?:
99-bottles-of-beer.net/

I provided one of the GNU Make implementations, which lasted about a week before it was improved upon :)

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Ross Henderson

I think I've added a pull request. Never used GitHub before so this was a fantastic little project to learn with :)

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Ben Halpern

53 Hello Worlds

Incredible.

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Omkar Ajnadkar

Yes, It feels awesome😎

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tux0r

possibly 4 to 5 languages

I reached 12 (plus some application script languages). I won! - And I would say I'm good with three of them. Yet!