Ask HN: What are you working on?

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by nemo1618 on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:05AM (#25787213)

> But what are they doing fast?

Solving programming challenges. Maybe this sounds broader than I intended. By "programming challenges" I literally mean Advent of Code, HackerRank, etc. This is by no means a general-purpose language!

I guess in your terms, the "problem one wants to solve quickly" is "outputting the answer that will be accepted as correct by the programming challenge website."

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by eyelidlessness on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:40AM (#25787416)

Oh my goodness, I seriously misunderstood your intent! Yes that’s a perfectly reasonable focus. I don’t know why I breezed past AoC. Sorry for the confusion!

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by nemo1618 on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:44AM (#25787436)

Haha, that's on me -- I probably should have written "competitive programming" in there somewhere. Cheers!

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by eyelidlessness on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:47AM (#25787451)

FWIW I’m very curious what you’ve come up with. I’m imagining based on your Python commentary it’s not a lisp, but that’s probably where I’d start for something like this.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by nemo1618 on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:51AM (#25787480)

Currently it's more of a fusion between Haskell and bash. I've played with Lisp a lot, but never anything serious; I can imagine that Lisp syntax, with appropriate hotkeys, would make for some speedy navigation/refactoring, though!

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by dunefox on Friday January 15, 2021 @06:07AM (#25789456)

Imo, good REPL integration is the thing to take from Lisp, not necessarily the syntax (although I'm a fan of it). See CL with SLIME.

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