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I'm thinking on doing them in Rust and Clojure. I've dabbled in Clojure before but nothing serious and I'd like to build up some more familiarity. Rust because
by Fabled 9y ago
I'm thinking on doing them in Rust and Clojure. I've dabbled in Clojure before but nothing serious and I'd like to build up some more familiarity. Rust because it's the first systems programming language that grabbed my attention; plus it's always good to have a varied selection of tools in your proverbial toolbox.
I know that I can probably do them in 10 minutes in Python, but that's not going to be as fun or valuable, especially since I'm not going to be able to compete for the leaderboard due to timezone/work.
- staticelf 9y ago> I know that I can probably do them in 10 minutes in Python Then you are in the absolute top tier of the people competing. Either that, or you probably belong in this subreddit https://reddit.com/r/iamverysmart https://reddit.com/r/iamverysmart ;)
- Fabled 9y agoHaha, I meant the actual coding part. I'm sure the problem solving would take me longer, it's just that once I have a solution in mind I can code it in 10 minutes in Python, since I'm very familiar with it and use it almost on a daily basis. Having to think about basic things such as how to instantiate hash maps, what is the syntax for control flow, does this language have this particular functionality. This can take hours spent in reading documentation and debugging. From what I've seen from last year, the problems arent't that hard (they're meant to be solved within a day), so the real time consuming part is the coding.
- staticelf 9y agoI get what you mean, but after the few first days it gets kinda hard imo. It takes like 10 minutes for me to read and maybe grep what the problem is.