I think you’re misunderstanding what “everything” means (it was “everything needed for a hello world”) and trying to divert the discussion to whatever Web has devolved into, which is an abomination that’s definitely unsuited for learning the ropes of software development.
Let me suggest a simple exercise for you.
I’ll wait.
I think you fail to understand the very basics of web development if you’re operating on the assumption that everything you need is always reachable.
I think you’re misunderstanding what “everything” means (it was “everything needed for a hello world”) and trying to divert the discussion to whatever Web has devolved into, which is an abomination that’s definitely unsuited for learning the ropes of software development.
In the browser you cannot access stdout, but you can use
console.log
to write to the dev console which is basically the same thing.In Node, you can use
process.stdout
.Both are available from the top-level
globalThis
objects that are part of each platform’s respective default library.