Johan Eliasson

Tech, space, games and random stuff

Hello, World!

With the switch to Hugo, I wanted a place to test the syntax highlighting that comes with Chroma. This is that place, and we’ll use the classic “Hello, World!” example in various computer languages I have used in one way or another, past or present. Of course, let’s over-engineer it by having some pipelines do the output. Origin The phrase “Hello, World!” was popularized by “The C Programming Language” by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie in 1978, which featured a simple C program printing the message to the screen. However, its first known use was in an internal Bell Labs tutorial by Kernighan in 1974. Over time, this phrase became the universal starting point for programmers learning a new language, representing the excitement of writing and executing their first successful program. ...