[DonHopkins]

"When a programmer picks up a new language it is customary to write the timeless Hello World application to ease your way into a daunting codebase with an overly-simplistic view of its syntax."

Who has actually written a "hello world" program to ease their way into a daunting codebase? Anyone? I haven't.

[meric]

Writing a new URL route in an existing web application, to serve hello world, yes.