aoc2021 VS roast

(Here's my original version that used the uint64 encoding: https://github.com/danvk/aoc2021/blob/e795c78090c35c0b9880fd692ba1677fae31e044/day23/day23.go)

Here's my previous solution, which didn't use any mutation: https://github.com/danvk/aoc2021/blob/92b5352806e0e854ebc36e6c9804dc13b5262349/day18/day18.go

Add more IO::Path::parent tests #801: merged 2022-02-19

23. Raku - $79,448

Pakku is a package manager for the Raku Programming Language. Latest releases of Pakku are part of Pakku Celastrina version family. Celastrina name means elegant and beutiful, So I will take the opportunity to introduce how elegant IMO Pakku handles Raku distributions.

Elizabeth Mattijsen reports on all recent developments around Rakudo, an implementation of the Raku Programming Language.

This became one of the first things that needed to be done, to be able to say the new implementation would be matching the old. During the development of these tests, it became clear there were some inconsistencies in the existing implementation, and worse: outright bugs.

Originally, I thought I'd name this series of blog posts "RakuAST for Beginners". But since documentation on RakuAST is pretty non-existent at this stage, I felt I would be doing people a service by making clear that they will be at the very front of development in the Raku Programming Language if they start dabbling in RakuAST.

Perl 5 is still around, widely installed, and maintained:

https://www.perl.org/get.html

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/07/06/why-perl-is-still-rele...

Raku (Perl 6) is also around, but was not widely adopted:

https://raku.org/

Well, performance has been improved by several orders of magnitude since the first release. So maybe it's time to look at https://raku.org again (or first have a look at its new documentation site https://docs.raku.org)

And installed inside Docker container few packages needed for the task - Raku language, its package manager Zef, database connector DBIish and support for SQLite: