7mo ago

Is anyone else doing Advent Of Code in Nix?

GitHub - fhoekstra/advent_of_code_2024: Trying to do advent of code in Nix this year because I want to get more comfortable with Nix. Let's see how far I get!

Recently got started with Nix and Home-Manager. I thought Advent Of Code would be a good way to get more comfortable with the Nix language.

I don't think I ever made it beyond Day 6 though, even in my most comfortable language (Python) so no idea where this will strand.

I am learning a lot about Nix though!

Have you used the Nix language outside of configuration? Let's share and discuss!

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What's an advent of code? Interested if it will help me learn more!
- https://adventofcode.com/
  An advent calendar of coding puzzles. Dec 1-25 you get a new puzzle every day
I definitely am: https://git.sr.ht/~kintrix/aoc2024
(The README is wrong, just copied it over from last year)
- Love the structure of your code. Exposing a part1 and part2 result from the same source file is a great idea
@F04118F
If I can make the time, I will. But I know @ellyse is doing it. 🎅 👩‍💻
She did one last night live on stream.
https://ohai.social/@ellyse/113482901348671949
- @gavin @F04118F yup! thats a link to a 2019 AoC, but here's my video for day 1 this year https://www.youtube.com/live/P3rUzAN0vw?si=W0qxiwKeDHVN2aQ
  the code is here: https://github.com/ellyxir/adventofcode/tree/main/2024/nix/day01
  i looked at your solution, good work!
  
  Your code looks awesome, I'm definitely going to steal some ideas from that, especially the lib.pipe really cleans up a lot of unnecessary bindings I did.
  Doing a with import ./utils.nix is also a lot cleaner than nesting let statements.
  
  That looks very lispy, is that intentional?

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