I was looking at code.golf the other day and I wondered which languages were the least verbose, so I did a little data gathering.

I looked at 48 different languages that had completed 79 different code challenges on code.golf. I then gathered the results for each language and challenge. If a “golfer” had more than 1 submission to a challenge, I grabbed the most recent one. I then dropped the top 5% and bottom 5% to hopefully mitigate most outliers. Then came up with an average for each language, for each challenge. I then averaged the results across each language and that is what you see here.

For another perspective, I ranked each challenge then got the average ranking across all challenges. Below is the results of that.

Disclaimer: This is in no way scientific. It’s just for fun. If you know of a better way to sort these results please let me know.

  • ClumZy@sh.itjust.works
    54·
    10 months ago

    Who tf uses OCaml. It was created by my alma mater, we hated studying that shit, it was invented for crazy people.

    • u_tamtam@programming.dev
      91·
      10 months ago

      we hated studying that shit

      It’s a more than fine functional programming language if you ask me. Was that the functional aspect that you disliked? Or the syntax? Because in one case like the other I’ve got some bad news for you about what’s to come in the programming languages landscape :)

      Who tf uses OCaml.

      The rust compiler (initially), large financial companies, the energy sector, etc: practically anywhere functional programming shines

      written by a Scala programmer