But apart from that it is “just” coding challenges with a story wrapped around them, and if you don’t like those, you won’t care for it.
But apart from that it is “just” coding challenges with a story wrapped around them, and if you don’t like those, you won’t care for it.
and see on the sidebar on the right in desktop view, the "Solution Megathreads" e.g. from Day 5 last year there is https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/a3912m/2018_d... with tons of solutions including more oddball ones like VimScript, less popular like Common Lisp and APL, and lots of people use it as an excuse to learn/use a new language, so plenty of Python, Kotlin, Rust, C#, GoLang, D, and so on.
As the days go on, the challenge difficulty increases quite a lot (not linearly) so the threads often turn to discussions about performance, mini-competitions between people, tips on complexity, different approaches and debugging, etc.
This guy finished in the top 10 last year and streamed(not live) his solutions so you can see how fast you need to be to be competitive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgv6d6rrQxo&list=PLZhotmgEsC...