Advent of Code 2020
The 2020 Advent of Code ended less than a week ago, and I thought the best way to cope with the void it left behind is writing a post about how I’ve seen it. This was my 5th year I jumped into it, but only the first one I actually did all the tasks. Just a small warning, this post contains some minor spoilers. This year my aim was to do all the tasks as fast as possible, so I didn’t use a new language. I started with Python, but after the second week, it became obvious that I don’t know it enough to be fast with it, as I had to look up things every day, which took some time. After that, I moved to Kotlin, which was a bit slower because of the compilation time, but my better knowledge of the language paid off. I also rewrote my existing solutions to Kotlin to have them all in one place. You can find it on GitHub, and as you can see, it has a few solutions for tasks from the previous years. I’m planning on going back and doing every task ever released, but that’ll take some time. ...