The Fastest Programming Language? ‘Dave’s Garage’ Seeks the Answer

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Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has attracted 134,000 subscribers to his “Dave’s Garage” YouTube channel. Now he’s using it to stage a head-to-head competition between programming languages to determine which one is fastest.

In July Plummer released a video kicking off the competition — promising his videos in coming weeks will share comparisons of 100 various implementations of the same program in 45 different programming languages in “a software drag racing extravaganza…

Reading through the list during his video, Plummer says at one point “I have no idea what OCaml actually is, but it looks kind of cool.”

But I’m just going to put it on GitHub and make a couple videos about it, and let people run with it.”

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