“Hello, (real) world” in PHP in 2017
Everyone&#x27;s trying to take this literally as the &quot;right way to display plaintext&quot; in modern PHP.  In that sense, it is absolutely absurd.<p>But if the idea of a &quot;hello world&quot; is to learn the basic boilerplate that you&#x27;ll need before you start implementing real features, unfortunately for us web developers, this quite accurately represents the minimum before we can even start implementing business logic.  With the <i>baseline expectation</i> for a lot of modern SPA-type applications including caching scripts, client-side routing, server-side rendering, working offline, supporting IE9 to iOS to Firefox and all the quirks in between, etc it really is getting to this point.<p>I wish like nothing else that most of this could come out of the box so &quot;hello world&quot; really was a one-liner, but that just doesn&#x27;t seem to be the reality that 2017 webapps live in.