🎄 Day 06
In V
Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
I dont like V. Part 1 was pretty easy, but my code for it is really ugly. I dont want to blame V, but i also kinda do. It feels like Go but bad. You have probably already heard stuff about it and its owner. By the time i got to part 2, i was already a bit annoyed by V and became even more annoyed when i realised im not gonna come up with a clever solution for part 2 and i will have to bruteforce it. I encountered a couple of bugs, didnt bother looking at better ways to do the stuff i did in V, piled bad code on top of bad code and put it all together with duct tape. The result is a program that takes 876.92 seconds (14 minutes) to calculate the result. It is pretty bad, but it works. Im obviously not satisfied with this so i do plan on returning to this day and cleaning up the code. I can imagine doing this day in Rust and getting way better reuslts, but i dont want to change the language after already spending so much time on this. I will (maybe) get back to this at some point to clean up, refactor and optimize the code.
To run part 1 or part 2, do:
$ make part1
$ make part2