Hello All,

With less than 5 days to kick off, I thought I’d make a post to let you all know that this isnt an unmoderated ghost town, and I will be creating the daily threads as per last year. I am time zone-challenged, so if its late you’ll have to be patient and bear with me.

Looks like the leaderboard from last year can be reused, so I think everything is all sorted!

If there is anything I can do to improve on last year, please let me know.

Looking forward to seeing the new challenges and novel solutions!

  • @[email protected]English
    13•1 month ago

    Hoping to complete AoC in real time using Rust this year. Is it possible for new users to join the leaderboard?

  • @[email protected]
    5•1 month ago

    I wasn’t able to complete last year’s AoC as I am 10+ hours ahead and I am a bit daft. Hoping to do this year’s AoC in a new language so I can practice. Thinking Zig, Golang or Rust.

  • @[email protected]
    4•1 month ago

    I run our AoC channel at work, and also reactivated it this week after a year of inactivity :).

    I would love to learn a new language, but I’ll probably just do it in Rust again, because I so rarely get to program in Rust :).

    • @[email protected]OPM
      1•1 month ago

      How did it work in your work place? Did you get some kind of training budget to spend on the challenges?

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 month ago

        Alas, no. We just have a Slack channel, and I think that work generally just slows down a bit in December, so people have a bit of time to work on AoC.

  • lwhjp
    4•1 month ago

    Yay, it’s that time of year again!

    Don’t know how often I’ll be able to compete for time this year, but I’ll give it a go.

  • @[email protected]
    3•1 month ago

    Thx for the heads-up, I kinda forgot. After my hard-mode adventure in Haskell and my woefully under prepared Rust attempts, maybe it’s time to pick something safer. I’ll probably go with Julia this time around, give it a proper test.