In 2024, I set about trying Advent of Code using Rust. I've tried it before, but it's not a language I'm terribly familiar with, but it's come a long way and since I almost never get to code professionally any more, this is my chance to try and explore new ecosystems.

I'm going to try to minimise the number of smart things needed, so I'm not going to be optimising particuarly well. I know that Rust has some good functional practices, so I'm expecting to use iterators, zip, map, flatmap and so on.

My experiences with non pythonic langugaes is that that I really miss the batteries included standard library, so I'm going to make a bit more effort to use the rather excellent cargo crates system when needed as well.

Work has been insanely busy this year, so I'm going to consider myself happy if I manage about half the problems this year.

Completed days

So far I've completed the following days:

• Advent of Code 2024

• Day 1 - Pair and sum boys, pair and sum

• Day 2 - 99 green bottles sitting on a wall

• Day 3 - Regular expressions

• Day 4 - Word search

• Day 5 - Just read the damn problem

• Day 7 - It's turtles all the way down

• Day 9 - Moving memory

• Day 14 - Not really a grid

Cheers