and see on the sidebar on the right in desktop view, the "Solution Megathreads" e.g. from Day 5 last year there is https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/a3912m/2018_d... with tons of solutions including more oddball ones like VimScript, less popular like Common Lisp and APL, and lots of people use it as an excuse to learn/use a new language, so plenty of Python, Kotlin, Rust, C#, GoLang, D, and so on.
As the days go on, the challenge difficulty increases quite a lot (not linearly) so the threads often turn to discussions about performance, mini-competitions between people, tips on complexity, different approaches and debugging, etc.
Re:Advent of Code 2019
by gerikson on Friday November 29, 2019 @04:21AM
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The subreddit is pretty great. Tons of good discussion, feedback in the (very rare) cases when something's pear-shaped about the day's puzzle, and a helpful vibe.
and see on the sidebar on the right in desktop view, the "Solution Megathreads" e.g. from Day 5 last year there is https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/a3912m/2018_d... with tons of solutions including more oddball ones like VimScript, less popular like Common Lisp and APL, and lots of people use it as an excuse to learn/use a new language, so plenty of Python, Kotlin, Rust, C#, GoLang, D, and so on.
As the days go on, the challenge difficulty increases quite a lot (not linearly) so the threads often turn to discussions about performance, mini-competitions between people, tips on complexity, different approaches and debugging, etc.