Which Programming Language Wins a 10 Billion Loop Test? Insights from a Community Benchmark
Ben Dicken conducted a massive benchmark running 10 billion nested loops across many languages—Zig, Julia, Perl, Elixir, Fortran, C#, Lua, and more—while the community contributed optimizations such as goroutine‑based Go improvements, sparking discussions on fair measurement, startup overhead, and concurrency advantages.
