advent-of-code VS advent-of-code-rust

Scala using µJson. Really happy with how concise this is. I was able to parse everything into a Packet class that extends Ordered, which gives us the compare function. So once that was implemented recursively according to the rules we were given, I was able to jsut call .sorted for part 2.

Scala using jgrapht. I thought part 2 would require a different graph (similar to 2018 day 22) since the story said "to avoid needing to get out your climbing gear..." Glad that wasn't the case!

Scala. Pretty happy with how I parsed these into anonymous instances of my Monkey trait. For me part 2 wasn't hard because of the modulo trick, but because I was using mutable queues. So I had to add a reset() method to get things back the way they were before running part 2

Scala using tail recursion. Not the prettiest, but it works

Scala. Not too bad with my Point helper class. After part 1 I refactored the movements into a move helper that just takes 2 arbitrary points; the current point and the one we are moving towards. Then it was easy enough to just apply that in order each iteration for part 2.

Scala. It's ugly, but it works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Scala. Parsing wasn't as hard as I thought it would be using transpose and then just filtering non-alphanumeric characters. I initially parsed to a Map[Int, mutable.Stack[Char]] but then that bit me in part 2 when I would have to "reset" it (dang mutability!). So instead I parse to Map[Int, String] and just build the mutable stacks twice.

Updated version using sets instead of ranges

Scala. A little more verbose than I would like, but it works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Scala

https://github.com/fspoettel/advent-of-code-rust best rust aoc template imo

It's Christmas time and time for Advent of Code 2023 edition. Starting from today I will try to solve puzzles in Rust and publish a post a day in which I tell my solution. My goal is not to climb the leaderboard but to use the problems to practice writing Rust code and improve my language knowledge. Copilot yes or Copilot not? It's for learning so Copilot definitely not. The solutions will be available at the following git repository, as I don't have much time to write a template from scratch, I will use the starter template available here.

If you haven't tried Rust:

Someone put together a very nice template in Rust that automatically downloads tests, solutions, creates a scaffold for the binaries, etc and submits solutions through CLI. I used this template last year to learn Rust and it got me "up and running" quickly and easily.

https://github.com/fspoettel/advent-of-code-rust

18. 👨👴 Advent of Code is a yearly event where you can solve small (but high-quality) programming puzzles in any language you want. It can be applied to any language that you are learning. You might find this, this, and this repo useful as well where they provide templates and solutions for prior years.

I know you mentioned you were using this an exercise to learn macros so feel free to ignore this, but I like using this template repository for Advent of Code. It treats each day as a separate binary, but main.rs will run through all the days.

I'm using this template. If you are familiar with Rust you could try running my code in this template to see what speeds you get. This is with the --release flag.

Great solve! Mine ended up being much more complicated since I tired to predict the part 2... Can recommend using a template so you dont have to repeat the whole cargo things, I use this one that builds templates, test and downloads input etc https://github.com/fspoettel/advent-of-code-rust