toit VS advent-of-code

It uses toit, a high-level language, and is thus quite easy to learn. At the same time it's an order of magnitude faster than micropython.

We have been faced with the same question and decided to open-source pretty much all of our product (https://github.com/toitlang/toit).

I also really like MicroPython! Having said that, I have been working on an alternative to it for a number of years now -- primarily to provide a more robust and performant high-level alternative to C and Rust on the ESP32-family of chips:

https://github.com/toitlang/toit

I'd love to pick your brain and fully understand your experience with MicroPython. I've been doing programming languages for a number of years now, and I find that it is incredibly useful to understand what developers appreciate (and dislike) about the available stacks.

Thank you for the mention!

I have been working on the Toit language for the ESP32 for a number of years now -- and it has been an enjoyable challenge to build an open source stack capable of supporting live reloading on a micro-controller that can run for years on batteries.

https://github.com/toitlang/toit

We use it for some of our tools, so it's possible (and works nicely). Our LSP server was initially written in Toit: https://github.com/toitlang/toit/tree/master/tools/lsp/serve...

JavaScript

Almost walked away from this when caught out by the "empty" space flipping. But stuck with it and managed to make it work without changing my approach too much.

I enjoyed this one, despite all the reading. Felt like a nice change of gear from yesterday's. Using recursion to read sub-packets from the binary string, using a function that returns the value (or version sum in part 1) as well as the length, so I know where to read from for the next sub-packet.

Enjoyed today's one, short and sweet

Mine is similar (but in JS)

Struggled to get my head around the explanation of part 2 today, need more coffee

not the most inspired solution

JS solutions, already settled back into the habit of relying on reduce functions

GitHub - Solutions to both halves