Recently got started with Nix and Home-Manager. I thought Advent Of Code would be a good way to get more comfortable with the Nix language.

I don’t think I ever made it beyond Day 6 though, even in my most comfortable language (Python) so no idea where this will strand.

I am learning a lot about Nix though!

Have you used the Nix language outside of configuration? Let’s share and discuss!

    • F04118F@feddit.nlOP
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      Somehow I completely missed that split can do match groups… Oopsie! I did it in Python today but I did make a completely functional (and way too complicated) algorithm.

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      The way you handle the do and dont is much cleaner

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      • Ellyse@ohai.social
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        1 day ago

        @F04118F if i had known about match i probably would have gotten stuck also lol but luckily i used split once before and remembered it :) i made an issue in your github, hope thats ok, just to mention this in case you didnt see it on fedi!

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          1 day ago

          Yeah I was planning on changing the salty README and referencing your comment, thanks for putting the reminder there!