AdventOfCode VS aoc2018

I did the same challenge this year, though I didn't use as “esoteric” languages (TeX… I love it :D), but I've made it more difficult than necessary by using the languages I'm familiar with first, before realizing this might be a mistake… I've written on my learnings on the AoC subreddit[0] and if you'd like to see my code, it's of course on GitHub[1].

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/zwi0t4/2022_w...

1: https://github.com/d12bb/AdventOfCode/tree/main/2022

Anyways, if you're interested, here's the code. Now I'll try to get rid of all these compilers, interpreters, language servers, Neovim plugins etc. I'll never use again…

I never used Raku (or even Perl) before, but as I try to solve Advent of Code using a different language every day this year, I did today's problem in Raku. I'm quite intrigued by its Grammar feature and used it to parse the input, but found it really difficult to get working. That said, I'd like to hear from more experienced Rakuistas if what I did was even remotely idiomatic or looks just gross to your eyes. So here's my code (may be easier to read on Github):

Today's Raku: src

I'm doing different language each day, all solutions here.

Hah, as someone who has studied at University of Oslo, many of the lecturers make sure that Simula isn’t forgotten, by constantly reminding us that it was the first language with classes etc.

Therefore, a few years back I decided to learn it a bit (I borrowed a really old book from the library) and solved one of the Advent of Code puzzles in Simula: https://github.com/judofyr/aoc2018/blob/master/day3prog.sim

I was actually very surprised at how “modern” it felt. However, neither this code nor the article touches on the real cool parts of Simula: Simulations based on coroutines.

In 2018 I did the same thing, but I asked my friends for the list of languages (they didn’t know what it was for) so I ended up with far more esoteric languages: https://github.com/judofyr/aoc2018

In the end I lost the motivation once I only had the “regular” languages left. I was also solving them as quickly as possible (in Ruby) to get on the leaderboard so it was kinda boring to also solve them again later on.