[ducdetronquito]

I will try to do it with F# and Gleam this year, but like every year I won’t have time (and brain) to do more than 10/12 days ^^

For the pythonists around here, give F# a try: it can feels very close to scripting and it has a wonderful REPL too :)

[thaliaarchi]

I'm continuing my tradition of doing AoC in Whitespace[0]. The first year I did it, it was motivation to build out a standard library so things wouldn't be so tedious. Now, I find myself wishing I had finished better tooling. I debug with wsjq[1], a CLI debugger like gdb written in jq, but it's slow.

[0]: https://github.com/thaliaarchi/ws-challenges

[1]: https://github.com/thaliaarchi/wsjq

[axpy906]

I am doing it in bash. Will see how far I can go!

[ssernikk]

I've done last two AoCs in F# (well, only the first few days too). For a person without prior functional programming experience, it was fun! Unfortunately I won't have time to participate this year, but if I did, I'd probably chose F# again.

[codeconscious]

Nice. I've started picking up F# too and am trying AoC with it this year. I'm still early in my functional journey, but I think AoC has been helpful thus far.

[andrelaszlo]

How's linux support? :)

[davidgl]

Perfect, run loads of f# and c# on Linux, and have for years

[ducdetronquito]

Works like a charm for me with Ubuntu 24.04/VSCode/Ionide (F# extension) !

For AoC I don't use a real project setup, just a `dayX.fsx` file and I run it like a script with `dotnet fsi dayX.fsx`, et voilà :)

[neonsunset]

If almost 9 years were not enough to make this question seem silly, perhaps DuckDuckGo/Kagi/Perplexity could answer this?