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I have done it every year, mostly in Rust or C++, with a smattering of other languages (Factor, SML, Haskell). I think I will go with Racket this year. I'm not

I have done it every year, mostly in Rust or C++, with a smattering of other languages (Factor, SML, Haskell). I think I will go with Racket this year. I'm not competing, partly because I don't want to be up at 6AM, and partly because I like it better as a relaxed 15-30 minutes where I learn some new stuff about the environment I'm working with (for example, one year I used CMake to build, just to get some experience with it).

josteink 7y ago
> I'm not competing, partly because I don't want to be up at 6AM, and partly because I like it better as a relaxed 15-30 minutes where I learn some new stuff about the environment I'm working with (for example, one year I used CMake to build, just to get some experience with it). Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but this doesn't seem very exceptional. To me this seems to be 100% within the spirit of the project. I didn't even know there were competitive aspects in place.
- dagurp 7y ago
  Edit: There is a leaderboard https://adventofcode.com/2018/leaderboard https://adventofcode.com/2018/leaderboard > Getting a star first is worth 100 points, second is 99, and so on down to 1 point at 100th place.
Waterluvian 7y ago
I think the "competition" part stands out because of the nature of competition. But practically it's a supplement for the people who want that. I'm going to wildly guess that the overwhelming majority of participants aren't seriously competing. I absolutely love and share your approach. Learn new stuff and grow. This reminds me of SpaceChem, Magnum Opus, or other games like that. I get a solution and then I optimize the solution and explore other methods of getting there.