I just made a git repo for my #AdventOfCode solutions, so if any of you wanna see my spaghetti code you can find it here on #Codeberg - codeberg.org/rokosun/AOC
I'm using the #Nim programming language since I started learning it a while ago, still very much a beginner tho 🙃
P.S. Also check out @amin's private leaderboard for #AOC - alpha.polymaths.social/@amin/s…
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in reply to Rokosun • • •I've done all of mine so far in gleam :p so I'm not sure how helpful they would be since they look kind of different:
bin.benjaminhollon.com/tifirtr…
But in a way the language has kind of a similar feel, weirdly enough.
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I'll take a look at this, I'm interested in seeing different people's solutions even tho I may not fully understand the language they use, most programming languages tent to have some familiarity with each other so you can make a pretty good guess.
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in reply to Roma • • •@esh I've actually just finished doing day 4 now, see my code 🙂 - codeberg.org/rokosun/AOC/src/b…
@sotolf helped me learn custom types in Nim and so far it has been very useful in solving these puzzles and keeping my code more neat and organized in general.
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Yeah I'm not familiar with using custom types or objects because my experience with programming so far had been writing shell scripts on Linux - which doesn't support either of those, lol 😅 So yeah, I'll probably need some practice before I can get into the Nim way of thinking. Thanks for your suggestions BTW 🙂
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Some other folks have also shared their Nim code for this year's AoC so that's gonna come handy - forum.nim-lang.org/t/10717
This might sound like a stupid question, but I'm a bit confused between objects and custom types in Nim - do I actually need to use an object here or would a custom type with named tuples be enough?
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Here you go, this is how I would have solved day 2 in nim:
I like to keep things as readable for myself as possible for later, and so that it's a lot easier to debug when you inevetably will have to do it :)
bin.benjaminhollon.com/orrival…
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in reply to sotolf • • •Oh thanks man, I'll take a look at the code 😃
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Wow your code looks much better and well structured than mine. I still find it a bit hard to wrap my head around these custom types and things but I understand why it can be beneficial - it feels like the initial part of your code that defines all the custom types and the procedures used to parse them provides a sort of scaffolding that makes the rest of the code more easy to manage, I also like how modular everything is compared to my "omnifunction" 😄
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in reply to Rokosun • • •@amin yeah, that's exactly how I'm thinking how can I represent the data, and then how can I get closer to what I want, or functions I need to do what I need. My way is just one way to do it, but it's the one I find the easiest to work with :)
Types are a bit daunting in the beginning but when you do they really help you think, and let's the compiler help you not do a quite big group of errors :)
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I think I also learned some new Nim features from your code, for example I was surprised to see how you defined the CubeSet type on line 13 - is Nim using the Color enum for indexing its arrays?! I had no idea this was possible!