I think it would be much better if someone asked a group of experts for each language to come up with their best implementation for the tasks. If I just spent a

I think it would be much better if someone asked a group of experts for each language to come up with their best implementation for the tasks. If I just spent a few hours implementing a benchmark in a handful of languages I wasn't proficient with then I think the benchmark rankings would be nearly random or merely dependent on my priors.