Hacker News Reader

I was going to do something fun, but gimmicky and try to implement them all in like SPL/2100 on an emulator running RTE, but quickly found I'd end up spending the month learning the latter.

I've been trying to think I've something, else fun to do or maybe use a language I've been itching to try, like Ada, but based on the first question it seems it'd just be boring to so in a language like that. I can think of a ton of other gimmicky solutions, but none that are very fun.

Gonna be giving APL/J a shot this year.

Remember seeing someone did videos last year exploring APL solutions.

Not sure if doing again, but could be useful resource

Jay Foad has done Advent of Code solutions in APL for previous years: https://github.com/jayfoad/aoc2020apl

He got onto the leaderboard for fastest solutions with APL, too.

There are many sets of published solutions: see https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Advent_of_Code.

I will be doing it w/ Zig and Julia this year, i'm redoing some Rust, python, and scala solutions from previous years

I did 2019 in Nim, and I'll be doing 2021 in Rust. 2020 I tried to go for speed though, so I went with python.

Implementing Intcode in Nim for 2019 was really pretty fun