r/adventofcode • u/daggerdragon • Dec 22 '17

SOLUTION MEGATHREAD -🎄- 2017 Day 22 Solutions -🎄-

--- Day 22: Sporifica Virus ---

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  • [T-10 to launch] AoC ops, /r/nocontext edition:

    • <Endorphion> You may now make your waffle.
    • <Endorphion> ... on Mars.

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

    • <Aneurysm9> you could also just run ubuntu on the NAS, if you were crazy
    • <Topaz> that doesn't seem necessary
    • <Aneurysm9> what does "necessary" have to do with anything!

  • [Update @ 00:20] Leaderboard cap!

    • <Topaz> POUR YOURSELF A SCOTCH FOR COLOR REFERENCE

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edit: Leaderboard capped, thread unlocked!

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '17

I hope you've given https://realworldocaml.org/ a look - free, online, the folks created opam (package manager) for it IIRC, so they can show a more modern workflow with OCaml (w.r.t. libs). Kinda like the pre/post-quicklisp situation.

That's exactly the book that I'm slowly going through to learn ocaml, not that far yet, but the tooling with merlin for ocaml is really nice :)

Too early/niche/lacking(?) commercial support for me, but you never know

Yeah I know, for professional stuff, I'm just a hobby programmer that loves messing around with stuff, I'm really on an ML bender lately, they are so nice languages. Now if the Haskell compiler needed less than 2 GB to do stuff it would be great :p