The "Hello World" Showdown

The eternal battle between impatient students and grizzled programming instructors!

Prof: "Let's start with a simple 'Hello World'."

Overconfident newbie: "Pfft, I can print text. Next!"

And that's when the professor goes nuclear! Because learning your 17th "Hello World" feels redundant until you realize each language's setup process is a minefield of package managers, compiler flags, and environment quirks that will absolutely destroy your soul later.

The professor isn't teaching you to print text—he's teaching you how to survive the chaos that follows. Those first 15 minutes of setup will save you 15 hours of debugging why your production build is inexplicably printing "undefined" instead of "Hello World".