288
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"Hello, World!"
Brainfuck, 78 bytes
Open-ended bounty: If anyone can improve this score, I will pass the bounty (+500) on to them.
@KSab has found a 76 72 byte solution!
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212
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Hello, World! (Every other character)
Python 3, 61 bytes
rant="partisn't"
print(("HHeelllloo,, WWoorrlldd!!"""[::2]))
Try it online!
Abusing the fact that print ...
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"Hello, World!"
Piet, 84 codels
28x3, here shown with codel width 10.
Created with PietDev (zip), tested with npiet. The layout of the program is the following:
Yellow fill indicates codels where the path overlaps, ...
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64
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62
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Hello, World! (Every other character)
Cardinal, 29 bytes
%
"
H
e
l
l
o
,
W
o
r
l
d
!
Try it online!
Removing every other character removes all the linefeeds, which still results in ...
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Rube Goldberg Hello World
Foo → gs2 → M → Jelly → Retina → Aeolbonn → Par → Actually → Sprects → sed → Universal Lambda → Lines → /// → m4: 19/13 ≈ 1.4615 points
"“GḋÞḊCøẉYỴ⁴ñ<ȯƥ»Ṿ¦
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52
votes
Accepted
52
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Hello, World! (Every other character)
C, 125 bytes
xpxuxtxs( ) { }xuxs ( ) { } main( ) {puts ( "Hello, World!" ) ; } mxaxixn ( ) {xpxuxtxs ( " H e l l o , W o r l d ! " ) ; }
Try it online!
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50
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Biggest Irreducible Hello World
Keg, \$3.3 \times 10^{8912898}\$ bytes
...÷⅍+ℤ,(|⅍+)ℤ,(|⅍+)ℤ,(|⅍+)ℤ,(|⅍+)ℤ,⅍+ℤ,⅍+ℤ,⅍+ℤ,(|⅍+)ℤ,(|⅍+)ℤ,(|⅍+)ℤ,(|⅍+)ℤ,⅍+ℤ,
Program as seen in the raw ...
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48
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"Hello, World!"
Seed, 4154 4135 4117 4078 bytes
Explanation, quite long, along with the description of the generation algorithm on my home page (as per request in comments): link
Possibly smallest one can create in ...
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Biggest Irreducible Hello World
APL (Dyalog Unicode), \$ \approx (10 \uparrow)^{625} 10.024549 \gg 10 \uparrow \uparrow 626 \$ bytes
⎕UCS(13⌿*⌿2+|⊃⎕RL⊣⎕RL←⍪⍨1)⊤≢⍬⍬⍬...
The exact byte count is
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"Hello, World!" in zero lines of code
Haskell, 36 35 bytes
{-{--}--}main=putStr"Hello, world!"
Try it online!
Test sloc
Since sloc is regex based it is a very good guess to think it cannot ...
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42
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Build a twisted "Hello world!"
Python 2, 59 bytes
print " Hello, world!"[ 2::]
#rint "T w i s t e r !"[ ::2]
Twisted:
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42
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print "Hello, World!"
Bash, 21 19 bytes
lp<<<Hello,\ World!
And there it is.
2 bytes saved thanks to Dennis!
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41
votes
Accepted
Hell0 W0rld! scored by ASCII values
Lenguage, score 0
Well, this is quite boring and obvious, but it seems to achieve the perfect score (assuming I understand the challenge correctly). To fix this loophole, you should probably add the ...
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40
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Accepted
Hello World in Multiple Languages
23 Befunges, 713 bytes
The only language I really know is Befunge, so instead of multiple languages, I've just gone with multiple implementations of Befunge. I believe this is still valid under PPCG ...
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39
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"Hello, World!"
Java 5, 61 bytes
enum H{H;{System.out.print("Hello, World!");System.exit(0);}}
This is valid in both Java 5 and Java 6. This won't work in Java 4 or ...
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Goodbye Cruel World!
C, 43 bytes
main(){puts(puts("Goodbye Cruel World!"));}
Prints the string and then tries to use the return value as a pointer to another string to be printed, ...
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36
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36
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Hello, World! (Every other character)
Actually, 2 bytes
HH
Explanation:
H, as you might expect, pushes Hello, World! to the ...
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34
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"Hello, World!"
Java 8, 76 bytes
Thought I would try to beat Geobit's answer :)
interface A{static void main(String[]a){System.out.print("Hello, World!");}}
Try here!
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34
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"Hello, World!"
Shakespeare Programming Language, 755 749 715 612 605 592 bytes
-34 bytes thanks to jimmy23013
-And a whole 107 bytes more! Wow!
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34
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34
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Animate the text in your terminal
Vim 26 bytes
ihello world<ESC>qq~gsul@qq0@q
Explanation (no .gif yet):
First, we must enter the 'hello world' text. This is pretty straightforward. It's ...
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"Hello, World!" in zero lines of code
Java 6, 83 68 54 Bytes
The code :
/**/enum C{C;{System.out.print("Hello, World!");}}/**/
Although crashes immediately with error sent to stderr, prints ...
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"Hello, World!" in zero lines of code
Groovy, 28 bytes
/**/print"Hello, World!"/**/
Try it online!
Squirrel, 30 bytes
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