My hello world requires the "bash" framework and is zero bytes. You call it via:
echo "hello world" echo "hello world"I count 18 bytes in that program. Too long!
I left a definitive answer on Quora some years ago:
https://www.quora.com/What-programming-language-has-the-shor...
I'll just observe that there is no way to compress "hello world" below a certain size (definitely not to size 0). If you think you have, you've just "moved" it into, say, the framework/os/input/algorithm/etc.
But this fun little debate we're having here is actually connected to some deep theoretical questions, like Kolmogorov complexity, its invariance theorem, and applications to the concept of data compression [0].
Without actually checking, the result is going to be that the output size increases slightly over time.
The size definitely gets bigger with each iteration:
$ echo text >0.txt
$ for i in {0..9}; do
gzip <$i.txt >$((i + 1)).txt
done
$ ls | sort -n | xargs -n1 wc -c
5 0.txt
25 1.txt
46 2.txt
69 3.txt
82 4.txt
105 5.txt
120 6.txt
143 7.txt
161 8.txt
184 9.txt
207 10.txt cd /tmp
echo 'echo $0' > hello\ world
chmod +x hello\ world
PATH=. hello\ worldHello World