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You found it, "idiomatic" is the most subjective of all the potential categories I listed. "idiomatic" may not be useful to compare different languages, but it
by infogulch 5y ago
You found it, "idiomatic" is the most subjective of all the potential categories I listed. "idiomatic" may not be useful to compare different languages, but it could still be useful for comparing libraries and frameworks in a single language. If it did work across languages I would expect Perl programmers to decide amongst themselves what is idiomatic, and be willing to explain their reasoning to others (including Rust programmers).
But now that we're arguing about specific categories there's a chance that benchmark comparisons could be useful. Right now the whole enterprise is a cluster; categories aren't perfect but they would be an improvement.
- tialaramex 5y agoSee, with speed runs we're comparing players - people - on the charts. There is no chart about Grand Poo World 2 versus a Quake Total Conversion, the chart is like, OK, Poo is very good at GPW2 and Panga isn't as fast, but Tofu is faster than Poo. And I can believe a chart could tell me Bob the C++ programmer is better than Jim the C++ programmer at some task a community of C++ programmers agreed on. But can it tell me that Bob the C++ programmer is better than Sarah the C programmer? Or more so, that C++ is better than C? No, the C++ and C communities are going to disagree about how to measure this.