Here is one comparison for 2048: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/24134/create-a-simple-2048-game-clone http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/

Here is one comparison for 2048: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/24134/create-a-simple-2048-game-clone http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/24134/create-a-s... I think the idea of comparing languages based on a variety of tasks is interesting. We've all seen "hello world" in many languages[1], but including other tasks (like 2048) would provide a much richer summary of the language. Thus, a language could be efficiently summarized by tuples of "complexity parameters:" - lines of code - number of characters - total number of tokens - number of blank lines (which might approximate modularity) - ...etc For example, using "hello world" and 2048 as code targets: complexity("java", "num-characters") would yield: (115, 1269). complexity("python3", "num-characters") would yield: (25, 2048). 1: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Text http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Text