advent VS factor

My solution runs both parts in 3.5 ms on my 1.80 GHz Dell machine, which I think is pretty good for JavaScript. I explain my solution in the comments.

Here is a link to the Node module that handles my input fetching. The function that performs the actual request is below, using Node's built-in https module:

I made one in JavaScript as part of my AoC framework; feel free to steal the code.

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I mean, yeah, others are welcome to use it: https://github.com/rjwut/advent

My repo is at https://github.com/rjwut/advent. It has all solutions for all years in Node, and includes auto input download, skeleton solution generation, and even OCR for the ASCII letters used in some puzzles.

I just earned my last missing star. (No surprise, it was 2019 day 22. 🤮) My repo has all solutions in JavaScript, the vast majority of which complete sub-second. I also wanted to make it more useful for people learning the language, so I tried to write things in a way that would be more easily readable and maintainable than your typical quick-and-dirty solutions, and there's lots of documentation, probably more than I'd normally write. I also included my framework for generating skeleton solution files and retrieving input from the site (throttled and cached, of course). It even includes my OCR module for reading the large ASCII art letters used in some puzzles. Hope somebody out there finds it helpful in their own quest to improve their coding!

My impression so far is (in general), Forth are practically limited to doing embedded/microcontroller development.

For us, web/mobile/desktop app devs, beside:

- 8th (https://8th-dev.com)

- Factor (https://factorcode.org)

Any suggestion which implementation we should look for?

Factor is also very much worth a look. Forth-style syntax, but with many of the ideas from CL and Smalltalk as well. In fact as a CL fan, I was very impressed by it. It's also quite "batteries included" a la Python.

Otherwise, and more seriously, I'm not completely sure variables are needed. Factor is quite usable (it's my favorite go-to language if I quickly need to script something), and mostly doesn't have them.

There's a note on the page from 2022-08-19, that a lot has been added to it. It also links to the github page[1] for the up-to-date changes.

I am a Lisp, April, APL/J/BQE, and Forth[2] aficionado. I did some file munging programs in Factor back in 2012 at my job to sort through theater attendance logs in Word to compile statistics.

[1] https://github.com/remko/waforth

[2] https://factorcode.org/

Is there any "battery-included" ANS Forth (more or less like Python/Go) which provides access to concurrency, networking, database, GUI, etc?

Not an embedded device programmer, but mostly deals with frontend apps, and occasionally backend, so those are very relevant to me.

Or perhaps use "non-traditional" Forths like 8th (https://8th-dev.com) or Factor (https://factorcode.org)?

Here's my day two solution using Factor