Hello World, redux

Officially, this is the first blog post on the site. I call it a redux because I started writing posts a few years back, but never actually published them anywhere. But now, here we are. For the record, I've lost and/or deleted most of my previous drafts.

Every programmer is familiar with the "Hello World" tradition. It's one of the first things you learn when you start programming. I wrote my first Hello World program in C++ back in 11th grade (around 2016-17), which probably looked like this:

            
                #include <iostream>
                using namespace std;
                int main()
                {
                    cout << "Hello World" << endl;
                    return 0;
                }
            
        

I've come a long way since then. Ironically, I'm still writing C/C++ code. Then again, the Hello World tradition predates my existence by a few decades lol. The world has definitely changed a lot since then.

Relevant links:

• XKCD 353: Python
• Hello World from Scratch on a 6502
• From Zero to main(): Bare metal C

I don't expect anyone to read these blog posts, but if you do, thanks! Who knows, maybe I don't end up doing anything at all! Nonetheless, stay tuned.