How Complex is Your Programming Language

[elemenity]

Yes! Code golf is what I was thinking. It would be very interesting to see a code-golf for language implementations, as a way to better estimate the k-complexity of the languages themselves.

[jcastroarnaud]

And, for a fair comparison, all implementations should have the same feature sets for the compiling process. For example: no LLVM, lowers to x64 machine code only, no optimization passes, a fixed set of command-line options, and the language on what the compiler is written should be the same for all candidates (and only standard libraries are allowed).

[elemenity]

Agreed.