Re:Advent of Code 2018
by fells on Thursday November 29, 2018 @09:48AM
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Excited for this year's version. I did last year's event in OCaml which was a challenging, yet very rewarding experience. Still trying to decide what language to use this year.
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This is my first year participating in AoC and I am going with Elixir. I think this will be a great experience as I can try solving the problem on my own and then watch Jose Valim's approach live on Twitch. Here is more information if you are interested: http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2018/11/lets-learn-elixir-t...
I'm going to do Rust.
Yes, Rust is my other option I'm leaning towards. In process of learning it by building a ray tracer, so doing Advent of Code would be another way to get more familiar with it.
Gonna try using rust this year as well. I have no background in rust at all so I'm a bit excited for the extra experience of trying a new language.
Re:Advent of Code 2018
by itsme24543 on Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:41AM
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gonna give Rust a try also
Interesting choice. What made you want to learn Ocaml?
Always had been fascinated with functional programming, but kept stumbling with Haskell. Discovered the Real World OCaml [0] book and was instantly hooked. Sadly haven't been able to use it much outside of last year's Advent of Code and a toy ray tracer.