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by steveklabnik 1896 days ago
It really depends on what those languages mean to you. I don't think that you can answer these sorts of questions in the general case.

You can sorta kinda compare programs though. I had a discussion about this on HN last year. Note that this is an extremely small sample size, but you know https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22712441

I wrote an updated version half a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24595081

YMMV. It depends on a lot of factors.