Basics

In this chapter you will learn the absolute basics of Flint. These basics are very important and you need to keep then in mind from now on.

The basics of every simple program is printing. Any program needs to display information to the user of the program in one form or another. It does not matter if its a GUI (Graphical User Interface) or a CLI (Command Line Interface), the user of a program will almost certainly always need information to reed when executing a program.

So, printing to the console is, in a sense, the most minimal thing a program should do. So lets start the basics with exactly that, and lets print to the console!