Cookie cutter, template, or npm create style goal to get up and running quickly

[sureshjoshi]

The initial configuration page has 6 steps, and the 6th step is "check out the docs per language": https://www.pantsbuild.org/2.19/docs/getting-started/initial-configuration

That feels intimidating for newer users, and some of my clients have expressed similar. "Pants is great because you set it up for us, but it feels like it would be hard to do" kinda thing.

Even after I created a new repo today, I went to one of my existing repos and copied/pasted everything I needed.

Similar to npm, swift, cargo, and countless other projects - I think it would be immensely beneficial to have a one-liner to 80/20 a project.

I proposed this a while back and created a sample API - if I can find that document, I'll post it here

[sureshjoshi]

The plugin variant is here:
#20910

It's being hacked on in https://github.com/sureshjoshi/pants-plugins - and then I think it should be easy to fall back to also tack a regular init (kinda like pants does, but maybe a bit more thorough?)