Re:Advent of Code 2024
by ipdashc on Sunday December 01, 2024 @11:55AM
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For what it's worth, I hate leetcode with a burning passion, have no real interest in math, and yet I personally find Advent of Code quite fun and enjoyable.
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I have found AoC fun, but on some of the later days time constraints make it a little stressful (full time job + kids constrain my time).
I've done it (and completed it) the last five years. I used it to try out a few languages (Haskell, Idris, Lean) and did it in python one year I was feeling lazy. I've got a project going now, and I probably should do that instead.
However, that project is a programming language, so this is a way to test practicality. But solving problems and fixing shortcomings in the underlying language at the same time may be a bit too much. (It's a dependent typed language, so there is a lot of subtlety to deal with.)
this strat won advent of code in 2022. https://blog.vero.site/post/noulith