advent-of-code-2020 VS aoc2020

Advent of Code is a good opportunity to learn a language that you're curious about, but that's not the only way to do it. Some folks focus on learning algorithms, using a language they're already familiar with. Some folks focus on making interesting visualizations. Some folks use a language they already know and focus on getting the fastest possible execution time. Some folks try to get the shortest possible program, or visually-appealing source code. What sounds like a fun challenge to you this year?

Python (19/133), C

I've done every year in Haskell (2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021), and so have several other people such as /u/glguy. I don't see if /u/mstksg has anything published for 2015 but they've done 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 along with some pretty good writeups, I recommend checking those out.

I benchmarked all 25 days in 4 languages (using GitHub Actions, which performs worse than my local dev setup, but feels more fair for reproducibility). Can't get any pretty animated output, though.

Rust

Kotlin

Rust

Rust

Rust

Rust