Hello World

We can now see the famous Hello World program in src/Main.flix file:

def main(): Unit \ IO = 
    println("Hello World!")

That’s it!

You will immediately notice a few things are different from other programming languages:

• The main function has no formal parameters, in particular it does not take an arguments array. Instead the command line arguments are available by calling the Environment.getArgs functions.
• The return type of the main function is Unit.
• The main function has the IO effect since it prints to the terminal.