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Re:Ask HN: How old were the most talented software engineers... by fooddood on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @11:28PM (#18812817)
One of the most talented engineers I ever met was 24. He built a 3D engine in JavaScript for fun as well as a raycaster for fun. He also enjoyed challenging himself in all sorts of interesting ways like doing Advent of Code in C++.
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Re:Ask HN: How old were the most talented software engineers... by pxx on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @11:51PM (#18812905)
What's weird about doing Advent of Code in C++? You'll find a sizable number of the people on the leaderboard do it that way. I think it's partially due to competition programming habits dying extremely hard.

Of course, Python is by far the most popular, but C++ isn't that much more verbose.

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Re:Ask HN: How old were the most talented software engineers... by sgillen on Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:17AM (#18813465)
it depends, I think some people do advent of code did it as sort of race every day, in which case I think C++ would be a pretty big challenge IMO.
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