advent-of-code VS aoc2023

https://github.com/tcsullivan/advent-of-code/tree/master/day7.

Hey, Forth may have began development in the late 60s, but that hardly makes the language obsolete! It's super versatile yet terribly undervalued, and is absolutely worth checking out if you're not familiar with it. My goal is (and has been) to complete every day in Forth, see my repo for my solutions.

Source code

Annotated code and Visualization

Annotated code and video of it running. Running my actual input took ~7 minutes.

Annotated code for both parts

I eventually tend to do all days in Tailspin. The ones I have done so far are in directories ending in "tt" (the others are in Pyret, just to get a feel for it) https://github.com/tobega/aoc2023/tree/main

As a general tip, it is often helpful to first try to think of how you would like to represent the data in your program. Then you need to parse the data into that structure. I'd recommend you to look at a PEG-parser, for example. Or if you like, look at my Tailspin programming language which has a very visual parser syntax and also very visual ways of creating data structures (if that should happen to be your mental affinity). Look at my day1 for example. Or if you're more mathematical, maybe a functional language (I also did day1 in Pyret)