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24 alternatives to Hello-world.rs, a memory-safe minimal hello world with 774 dependencies

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hello-world.rs, a memory-safe minimal hello world with 774 dependencies launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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