Advent of Code 2021 [PL Edition]

Last year‘s AoC was mostly Haskell. For this year’s AoC, I decided to try a different Programming Language for each puzzle – thus the PL edition!

In total, I used 20 different languages, for puzzles 1 through 10. Here’s a quick summary of what every language felt like.

Loved Lua; felt so close to Python, yet much simpler. Tables all the way!
Coq and Dafny were cool, though I had to do some hacks # # for both due to lack of IO support. Check Idris though, similar type power but has IO support!
- Also, if Idris sounds fun, check out my book on it!
OCaml was cool, felt similar to Coq but less stricter than it. Also, pretty close to F#.
Amazed by Nasm‘s powerful macro system, assembly brought memories from high school. Pascal brought memories from high school as well.
(La)TeX is turing complete!
Had some fun with shell scripting and SQL.
It doesn’t count if PHP or JavaScript aren’t there.
Haskell is always fun. Lisp too.
The usual “class”y C#/Java.
Haven’t done either of C/C++ in ages, felt neat. That C++ code would’ve looked much better if I used something like boost.

All in all, definitely enjoyed the different energy from each language while I was coding in it.

That’s all with experimenting on this year’s AoC. I still might solve the remaining puzzles but if I do, it’ll be in some of the languages on that list 🙂

I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🙂