Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code

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  • slouch

    A competitive programming language (WIP -- MAY CONTAIN HIDEOUS CODE)

  • > The title is clickbait. I did not design and implement a programming language for the sole or even primary purpose of leaderboarding on Advent of Code.

    I did: https://github.com/lukechampine/slouch

    "Find all ten-letter words that contain each of the letters A, B, and C exactly once and that have the ninth letter K"

      :load wordlist wordlist.txt

  • advent

    Advent of Code solutions

  • A more interesting example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_zDbInYOpQ

    AoC solutions here: https://github.com/lukechampine/advent/tree/master/2022

    (The language has builtin commands for fetching inputs and submitting solutions)

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