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I love AoC! Last year was the first time I got all 50 stars, as I was motivated by a competition held by a Swedish podcast. This year, I'm even hosting a pub meetup about halfway through December, centered around Advent of Code, where a group of us hopefully can help each other out.
Is it a death sentence to try and learn Haskell on this challenge? Or should I go with a language I'm more comfortable in?
So, what are people gonna work in? Anything interesting? I am myself thinking about doing the challanges in Powershell. Because why not suffer more on this earth.
So, what are people gonna work in? Anything interesting? I am myself thinking about doing the challanges in Powershell. Because why not suffer more on this earth.
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Out of curiosity, what do you enjoy about D?
It's essentially the C++ I always wanted, which is more or less its intent. It's fast. The D code I write routinely matches or outperforms the C++ I also write for comparison. D is a much cleaner language. It has obvious C++ inspirations but has thrown out decades of backwards-compatible cruft. As a result, D has some of C++'s best features, like sophisticated metaprogramming, with much nicer language. In fact, this…
I'm actually one of the core devs of Nim and so probably naturally your description of D sounds a lot like a description of Nim to me. You should check it out if you haven't already.