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It's nearly upon us once again! I've (somewhat) participated the last few years, more as a way to learn new languages, I've never actually made it through all

by aquova 5y ago

It's nearly upon us once again! I've (somewhat) participated the last few years, more as a way to learn new languages, I've never actually made it through all the puzzles yet. I got fairly close with Rust last year, before getting burned out by the end. I'm currently debating either doing it with Nim or Ruby, of which I've never written a single line of in my life, but I'm curious to try out.

GavinMcG 5y ago
Also hoping to do it with Nim! Last year I'd asked for some getting started advice here: https://www.reddit.com/r/nim/comments/k22h74/advent_of_nim_2020/gealoo3/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nim/comments/k22h74/advent_of_nim_2...
bashbjorn 5y ago
I did AoC in Nim one year and was very happy with it! I also became infatuated with Nim that year..
- auxym 5y ago
  I also learned Nim in 2018 with AoC. I found one of the best things was coming up with my own solution, then looking at other people's solutions (the Nim community usually does Advent of Nim where a bunch of people post their solution repos on the nim forum) for more idiomatic approaches or stdlib functions I didn't know about.
  - otherme123 5y ago
    Solutions made with https://github.com/zevv/npeg https://github.com/zevv/npeg were surreal, I felt like a caveman watching a TV.
    - auxym 5y ago
      Yes, I do distinctly remember having that same feeling when reading zevv's solutions!
pietroppeter 5y ago
I have discovered Nim on this (HN) site in 2018 [0] and shortly after I wrote my first lines of code thanks to advent of code (it was also my first year discovering advent of code). I have become so affectionate of both (Nim and Advent of Code), that I always look forward to this moment of the year! Last year I used it to test my notebook library nimib [1] (and it was first, and currently only, year that I completed the calendar). This year a nice challenge could be to try and use a different library from Nim ecosystem each day (always wanted to use Nico for this, Manim looks it could give nice results, …). [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045259 [1]: https://pietroppeter.github.io/adventofnim/2020/day11.html https://pietroppeter.github.io/adventofnim/2020/day11.html

by aquova 5y ago

GavinMcG 5y ago

Also hoping to do it with Nim! Last year I'd asked for some getting started advice here: https://www.reddit.com/r/nim/comments/k22h74/advent_of_nim_2020/gealoo3/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nim/comments/k22h74/advent_of_nim_2...

bashbjorn 5y ago

I did AoC in Nim one year and was very happy with it! I also became infatuated with Nim that year..

auxym 5y ago
I also learned Nim in 2018 with AoC. I found one of the best things was coming up with my own solution, then looking at other people's solutions (the Nim community usually does Advent of Nim where a bunch of people post their solution repos on the nim forum) for more idiomatic approaches or stdlib functions I didn't know about.
- otherme123 5y ago
  Solutions made with https://github.com/zevv/npeg https://github.com/zevv/npeg were surreal, I felt like a caveman watching a TV.
  - auxym 5y ago
    Yes, I do distinctly remember having that same feeling when reading zevv's solutions!

pietroppeter 5y ago

I have discovered Nim on this (HN) site in 2018 [0] and shortly after I wrote my first lines of code thanks to advent of code (it was also my first year discovering advent of code). I have become so affectionate of both (Nim and Advent of Code), that I always look forward to this moment of the year! Last year I used it to test my notebook library nimib [1] (and it was first, and currently only, year that I completed the calendar). This year a nice challenge could be to try and use a different library from Nim ecosystem each day (always wanted to use Nico for this, Manim looks it could give nice results, …). [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045259 [1]: https://pietroppeter.github.io/adventofnim/2020/day11.html https://pietroppeter.github.io/adventofnim/2020/day11.html