Play2022 VS advent-of-code-kotlin-template

Kotlin.

I'd recommend looking at other people's Kotlin code. Mine would be OK except that I use too many custom library calls. I recommend Todd Ginsberg's Kotlin solutions blog. He's very thorough in his discussion.

Here you go.

My submission code had the dubious distinction of working on the first try, but it was a tangled nightmare of when statements and bad ideas kludged on top of other bad ideas.

Kotlin

It's very useful to be able to benchmark with some kind of timer. I wrote a Stopwatch class for this purpose, but subtracting from System.nanoTime is easy and is the perfect thing to put in a template so you never have to deal with the boilerplate again.

Full code here.

Original article: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2023/11/advent-of-code-2023-with-kotlin/

Official JetBrains Template - If you prefer a more minimalist approach.

I benchmarked the Md5 utility function provided in the repository by putting it in my solution for Year 2016 Day 14. P

Luckily for you, in you are also interested in learning Kotlin, JetBrains have shared a blog post on this event, explaining in more details how you can participate. Moreover, they have created a GitHub template which you can use to easily get started.