There's a lot of this going on over at /r/adventofcode, people are abusing the hell out of languages just to get their answers as quickly as possible to make the leaderboard.
For those of you who don't know what Advent of Code is, think of it as the advent calendar you had as a child (you know that thing with the chocolate behind the paper doors?), except you get a new coding problem every day and you get stars instead.