I was a bit annoyed that they ban certain languages from their "game", so I started to collect my own set of silly benchmarks (plus a framework to make defining, running, and visualizing benchmarks easy):
[https://bluenote10.github.io/SimpleLanguageBenchmarks](https://bluenote10.github.io/SimpleLanguageBenchmarks)/ The goal was to have a different focus by benchmarking simple/idiomatic implementations, e.g. to find out what performance I can expect from standard libraries in different languages. The Benchmark Game mainly compares what you can achieve over years of optimization => not the performance you get when you start out in a language. Unfortunately, I didn't get too far with the project, but Nim already looks really good . If anyone is interested in adding more benchmarks/implementation we could just run our ban-free benchmark suite.
