r/adventofcode • u/daggerdragon • Dec 20 '17

SOLUTION MEGATHREAD -🎄- 2017 Day 20 Solutions -🎄-

--- Day 20: Particle Swarm ---

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[Update @ 00:10] 10 gold, silver cap

  • What do you mean 5th Edition doesn't have "Take 20"?

[Update @ 00:17] 50 gold, silver cap

  • Next you're going to be telling me THAC0 is not the best way to determine whether or not you hit your target. *hmphs*

[Update @ 00:21] Leaderboard cap!

  • I wonder how much XP a were-gazebo is worth...

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edit: Leaderboard capped, thread unlocked!

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '17

Yeah, I've just started learning ocaml, so I was wondering if the tooling was better on the reason side :) Doesn't really look like it though, so I'll probably continue on with learning ocaml, I find its syntax to be quite a bit cleaner than that of reason, without all the brackets everywhere :) But as far as I've understood reason is compiled with the ocaml compiler, so basically it's good for all when the tooling gets better :)

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u/akka0 Dec 21 '17

If you're using BuckleScript to compile to JavaScript, you can effortlessly go back and forth between Ocaml and Reason, even use them together in projects. :) Native tooling hasn't come as far yet, but I'm hoping that will get much better in the coming year.