Advent of Code
So tomorrow it's time for Advent of code again, and I'm really looking forward to it. There shouldn't be many people not knowing what it is now after years of the “contest” going on. I'll be taking part of it again, like I've done every year since 2016 now, it's just such a fun little thing to work on. And doing it together with the really nice community over at reddit also makes it even more fun.
I'm usually working in a new language every year, which might be the reason why I never manage to go through everything, but it's just such a nice experience to work through the troubles that I find and trying to get into the language, and doing these problems really help.
I started out doing AoC in 2016 and since it was the first time trying something I was doing it in python, and redoing some of the days later in other languages, and I really got into it, just getting part of the story and solving by itself was so much fun.
Then in 2017 I decided to do the calendar in Elixir, and it went to my surprise way better than I thougth it would, and it's until now the farthest that I've got through the calendar before finding days where I couldn't go any further.
2018 was my Rust year, and I was struggling a lot, first of all rust wasn't as good as it is now, and secondly I had very little clue about what I was doing, so that was the year of fighting the borrow checker, I'm thinking about actually doing some rust again though so it didn't scare me away, it's a fun langauge to play with.
Racket was my language last year, And it was a lot of fun, not having used scheme that much it was a lot of fun to learn, and again I did better than I thought I would, I was burning out around day 17 or something, but it really was fun, and I learned a lot about racket and schemes.
So that brings us to this year, And this year I'm planning to do F# the tools has come quite far since the first time that I gave it a try, and I really like the syntax, it just looks good in my eyes, so now let's see how it is when I put it to a bit more of a test than just the small things that I've done until now, and I'm really looking forward to it.
I hope to see you too this year, have a lot of fun and learn something new :)