ack3 VS adventofcode

fyi ack is like this but for perl instead of python https://beyondgrep.com/

If you just need a single shell command you can do :!. Example:

:!ack "stupid_structure->who_wrote_this_crap.oooohhhhh\s+="

(and if you wonder what "ack" means: https://beyondgrep.com/)

Ack is consistent with grep but will sensibly handle the recursive stuff for you.

Scan the file tree containing the website for the links, or part of tje links, for example with ack which is an easy to use, recursive reimplementation of grep.

I've thought about redoing ack in Python but it wasn't any faster than the current Perl.

Ever hear of ack it might be a faster alternative.

No, but thanks for pointing out its existence. Homepage:

https://beyondgrep.com/

(ack comes from ack-grep, a better version of grep, but you can just replace it with grep -r)

I've been a fan of ack for quite some time.  Somehow (and I'm not quite sure how) once or twice it's found stuff in source code that VSCode simply misses (likely I was searching wrong with VSCode).  And there are a few things I've found that make it even more effective in searching Elixir code that I thought I'd share.

Very much agreed. I'm a developer and I honestly prefer ack (https://beyondgrep.com/) myself. But it has the exact same issue. It's not standard.

Code on GitHub is currently a mess.

In the spirit of the Day 5 ALLEZ CUISINE! challenge to ELI5 (Explain Like I'm Five), here's a tasty explanation of how my algorithm works using only a large bucket of Red Vines and a knife. It says to use lined paper, but if you try this at home consider aligning things on a cutting board.

[Language: Jsonnet] (on GitHub)

Elixir code, thoughts

Elixir 1554/1502 code, reflections

Elixir 2506/3402 (24 minutes, 2 hours), code, thoughts

Bonus solution in Go (golang) because I was confused about why my Elixir solution didn't work and decided to implement from scratch in case I'd done something dumb. The Go one also got the wrong answer, but took less than 100ms instead of a minute, so I could try out lots of tweaks that didn't change the answer.

Elixir 2031/2641 after 3.25/6.5 hours! Code on GitHub

I spent time this afternoon sprucing up my helpers for the iex REPL. I spent a bunch of time poking at things in IEx the last couple days and wanted to make sure I would minimize keystrokes if I needed to debug things on my phone while drunk. Turns out Thursday night > Friday night > Saturday night in terms of difficulty, so all those macros have so far saved me zero seconds :-)