If so what language will you be using/learning
I’m planning on learning either elixir or gleam right now.
If you have no idea what I am talking about. Advent of Code is a yearly coding puzzle that is done by Eric Wastl since December of 2015.
I’d be interested in learning rust.
If there are regular posts about this would you mind tagging me in.
I could use some accountability to actually do it.
I could probably do that if I can remember.
Maybe depending on how busy life gets. Been learning rust so probs stick with that despite it being really not ideal for coding puzzles lol
I had a similar experience, tried using it in 2021 and ended up giving up at day 5 or so lol
I’m not a particularly good programmer, but I wanna try to, if I get enough free time this december. Probably gonna go c++/rust
Both are good choices, they can get a bit harry as the questions get more complicated tho
I’ll probably be giving it a shot with something like Scheme, I’ve stayed very far away Lisp-y languages (and to be honest functional programming in general) because they’ve never interested me, but I’d like to try it just to say I’ve tried it and maybe I’ll end up liking it, who knows!
I had to learn Racket (derived from scheme) for a course at uni and I honestly enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. Highly recommend giving a lispy language a go if you haven’t before.
Would recommend Scheme 9 from Empty Space, works great on plan9 + *nix
Thanks for the recommendation!
I was thinking of giving it a go to get some practice with OCaml
Thats one I dont know yet but I know a few devs have created compilers in OCaml so its been on my list for a bit.
I gotta rust up. I did it in C last year and had a ton of fun but it was way too footy shooty and I gave up halfway through.
Lol that checks out. However, If you aren’t spinning up a bunch of threads and cause the parent to segmentation fault so you leave a bunch of zombie processes in its wake are you even living?
I developed romantic attraction to GDB at day 15, it was fun
I did the vast majority of last year’s in Rust minus the handful of times the borrow checker made something frustrating and I noped back over to C# (or the one time I used the equation solving library and had to hack it together with Python since the Rust bindings were temperamental). I’ll probably do Rust again this year.
Rust has a lot going for it, I really want to like it and I did mostly enjoy the time I spent with it, but the borrow checker does get frustrating when trying to do some things that would take me like 30 seconds in C.
We had a phd student who was doing rust research write some code and he did stuff with the borrow checker that makes my brain hurt. Like a macro having a signature of a 3 tuple of variables with different lifetimes
Yep, that sounds about right, lol. Rust’s macros alone are a whole can of worms that I don’t even want to bother opening right now.
Yep that was my experience trying to use Rust as well
