Hello, World!

Well, Here I am starting a blog.

I’ve been staring at this blank page for like 20 minutes trying to figure out what profound thing I should say first. Then I remembered - every programmer’s first step is literally just making their computer say hello. So yeah, tradition it is.

The origin story nobody asked forLink to heading

Back in 1978, two nerds named Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie were writing The C Programming Language. They needed a dead simple example to show how C worked, so they threw this together:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    printf("Hello, World!\n");
    return 0;
}

Five lines. That’s it. These dudes had no idea they were creating what would become the most copied piece of code in human history. Every programmer since 1978 has typed some version of this, probably while drinking shityshit coffee at 2 AM.

But WhyLink to heading

Well, “Hello, World!” is objectively pointless. It doesn’t solve world hunger or cure cancer. But there’s something weirdly comforting about it. You spend three hours installing seventeen different things just to get your development environment working. Half the error messages look like someone smashed their keyboard. You’re questioning your life choices. Then you run this tiny program and boom - your computer talks back. “Hello, World!”

It’s universal. Kid learning Python in Mumbai? Hello, World. Senior dev trying out Rust in Seattle? Hello, World. We’ve all been there, we’ve all felt that tiny dopamine hit when it actually worked.

ConclusionLink to heading

So this is my Hello, World. I have no grand plan here. I’ll probably write about whatever code stuff I’m messing with, projects that went sideways, things I learned the hard way. Some posts might actually be useful. Others might just be me complaining about why CSS is the way it is. But hey, at least we’re starting somewhere.

_LGTM!