If so what language will you be using/learning
I’m planning on learning either elixir or gleam right now.
If you have no idea what I am talking about. Advent of Code is a yearly coding puzzle that is done by Eric Wastl since December of 2015.
https://adventofcode.com/2024
I did the vast majority of last year’s in Rust minus the handful of times the borrow checker made something frustrating and I noped back over to C# (or the one time I used the equation solving library and had to hack it together with Python since the Rust bindings were temperamental). I’ll probably do Rust again this year.
Yep that was my experience trying to use Rust as well
Rust has a lot going for it, I really want to like it and I did mostly enjoy the time I spent with it, but the borrow checker does get frustrating when trying to do some things that would take me like 30 seconds in C.
We had a phd student who was doing rust research write some code and he did stuff with the borrow checker that makes my brain hurt. Like a macro having a signature of a 3 tuple of variables with different lifetimes
Yep, that sounds about right, lol. Rust's macros alone are a whole can of worms that I don't even want to bother opening right now.