Lol, that reminds me of when I was in Uni, I had a systems development class, they taught in C, all the lectures, tutorials and assessments were done in C. Our final assignment was handed out the week the first Rust v1.0.0 build dropped in 2015. I had been following the hype around the development of Mozilla's new language, and I was so keen, I asked my professor if I could complete my final assignment using Rust. He said it's a great idea. Then cut to me furiously trying to learn Rust in just two weeks, so I could even start the assignment, including C interop, implementing functions with c-style interfaces for callbacks, and lots of unsafe blocks for memory manipulation and pointer manipulation. In the end I was just forcing Rust to be C.

It did work in the end, and I did get an A, mostly because the professor couldn't understand any of the Rust code.

You gonna do Rust again?

Same. I only got through day 3 last year since I didn’t have time to do both the learning and the solving. I think I need a longer term project to give me more focus when learning a new language. This year I’m just sticking with my usual language Elixir, which I always enjoy.

Private leaderboards are the best

Is your leaderboard just who solves it first, or is there more to it?

they start out easy and get harder as time goes on. Theyre intended for all levels due to that and theres two different difficulties per day (the harder one being unlocked when you do the easy one). Basically anyone can do day 1

Heres stats for how many people completed each day last year https://adventofcode.com/2022/stats

I thought problem inputs were randomized for each user?

I'm sorry, I think I'm missing something. What's wrong about sharing the inputs? I thought the only thing problematic was to release a solution before the leader-board is full.

I tried it in rust last year, made it through like 5 days? It just took too long :(

So, are you regretting it?