AOC Day 13 Discussion: Sorting it out

[rhdeck]

Discussion of solutions for Advent of Code Day 13 here.

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[rhdeck]

A task I could do cold in JS, and had to learn how to do it in python. functools ftw! solve

[doleraj]

Yeah the choice of JS/TS today really made this just a matter of turning the crank.

[tkshill]

@rhdeck I feel like you're getting more and more concise with every problem!

[doleraj]

Huzzah for JSON.parse. https://github.com/doleraj/adventofcode/blob/main/aoc2022/src/day13/index.ts

[tkshill]

Vicariously learning about js through these

[tkshill]

Finally starting using my favourite parsing library. @doleraj made me realize I could just use a jsonparser, but I like the practice of working with fparsec.

The rest was just a bit of testing and pattern matching.

This'll be the only time I ever enjoy spinning up a sorter.

le solve