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Welcome back to my series of Advent of Code solutions in MiniScript! Day 18 was pretty straightforward, though it presents some interesting choices in how to represent the data -- choices I'm not sure I made optimally.

My Scala solution.

And I've solved all of the Advent of Code problems so far this year, which is utterly unimportant but still brings me joy.

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Welcome back to my series of Advent of Code solutions in MiniScript! In Day 17 we got to (sort of) play Tetris. Five different Tetris-like shapes fall into a pit, moved left or right on each step according to the input. The first task is to see how high this stack will grow after 2022 blocks have been dropped in.

Welcome back to my series of Advent of Code solutions in MiniScript! Day 16 was... how to put this?

Scala using µJson. Really happy with how concise this is. I was able to parse everything into a Packet class that extends Ordered, which gives us the compare function. So once that was implemented recursively according to the rules we were given, I was able to jsut call .sorted for part 2.

Scala using jgrapht. I thought part 2 would require a different graph (similar to 2018 day 22) since the story said "to avoid needing to get out your climbing gear..." Glad that wasn't the case!

Scala. Pretty happy with how I parsed these into anonymous instances of my Monkey trait. For me part 2 wasn't hard because of the modulo trick, but because I was using mutable queues. So I had to add a reset() method to get things back the way they were before running part 2

Scala using tail recursion. Not the prettiest, but it works

Scala. Not too bad with my Point helper class. After part 1 I refactored the movements into a move helper that just takes 2 arbitrary points; the current point and the one we are moving towards. Then it was easy enough to just apply that in order each iteration for part 2.

Scala. It's ugly, but it works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Scala. Parsing wasn't as hard as I thought it would be using transpose and then just filtering non-alphanumeric characters. I initially parsed to a Map[Int, mutable.Stack[Char]] but then that bit me in part 2 when I would have to "reset" it (dang mutability!). So instead I parse to Map[Int, String] and just build the mutable stacks twice.

Updated version using sets instead of ranges

Scala. A little more verbose than I would like, but it works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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