hexagony VS advent-of-code-wim

It's got a larger symbol set, but it's still relatively code-like. If you want some obtuseness, try out Hexagony where you code in a hexagonal grid, using a hexagonal memory, or Malbolge, who's entire goal is to be as hard to code in as possible.

Some examples that I find interesting: * Brainfuck * Marbelous * Hexagony * Emoji

The most highly upvoted solution to this problem is a 6-character-long program written in the Hexagony programming language.

(As an aside, some people "stop" here and then make programming languages based on this - because that is a simple interpreter... you could write a compiler for this language, or extend it - and the great golfing languages take that starting spot and keep going - don't worry about trying to replicate it, it takes some insanity to go that far - the point is that a stack based language is the starting spot for some impressive systems... like the JVM itself)

How about a programming language?

Thanks for the extra example. I've added it to my CI and test suite in https://github.com/wimglenn/advent-of-code-wim/pull/89

Full code here

I'm using Python so I'll never be as fast as the people using Rust or C, but am still able to solve most puzzles in under 1 second (repo: https://github.com/wimglenn/advent-of-code-wim).

Thanks for the kind words, well the source is here so you can just take a look. You have to run with var AOC_DEBUG=1 in env to enable the rendering.

I used an AStar pathfinder already prepared from earlier years (aoc2022/q12.py), just leaving the default null heuristic. If I understand correctly that is just a BFS.

https://github.com/wimglenn/advent-of-code-wim/blob/main/aoc_wim/ocr.py has nearly all the letters we've seen (including a larger font used once in 2018) although it is missing the 5-wide Y that was in my 2016-day 08 puzzle

By the way, I found that if you're willing to use pathlib and a guard, you actually only need 2 of those 6 case statements - it looks like this.

Python (repo). I was particularly pleased with how quick the parsing was.

Python + "AOCR" + complex numbers.

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