this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2023
18 points (100.0% liked)

NotAwfulTech

364 readers
1 users here now

a community for posting cool tech news you don’t want to sneer at

non-awfulness of tech is not required or else we wouldn’t have any posts

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
self@awful.systems
18
The official awful.systems Advent of Code 2023 thread (awful.systems)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
121 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Rules: no spoilers.

The other rules are made up as we go along.

Share code by link to a forge, home page, pastebin (Eric Wastl has one here) or code section in a comment.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

JQ looks like magic. So short! So clean! What's the catch?

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The main catch is it would often be faster to use a "real" programming langage ^^, both in writing the code, and in execution time for some loop heavy examples: equivalent code that completes say in 1 second in python, completing in 1 minute in jq. Also missing a way to call native libraries, to do stuff like say "md5" (relevant) in past years advents-of-code.

That being said i like the general "pipe", map-reduce feel of the language. Like bash one-liners It can make for very terse implementations. I like to add comments, and indentation to make it readable though.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the insight!