GitHub - fhoekstra/advent_of_code_2024: Trying to do advent of code in Nix this year because I want to get more comfortable with Nix. Let's see how far I get!
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Trying to do advent of code in Nix this year because I want to get more comfortable with Nix. Let's see how far I get! - fhoekstra/advent_of_code_2024

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.nlOPEnglish
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        15 days ago

        Yes, Nix is a pure functional programming language, like Lisp.

        The reason for its existence is to allow for reproducible and repeatable builds of packages and configuration. This is the basis for nixpkgs, NixOS and Home Manager.

        • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          10 days ago

          Oh, I know; I have commit access to Nixpkgs ;)

          I was just commenting on the way they’ve styled their Nix code here.

    • F04118F@feddit.nlOPEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Your code looks awesome, I’m definitely going to steal some ideas from that, especially the lib.pipe really cleans up a lot of unnecessary bindings I did.

      Doing a with import ./utils.nix is also a lot cleaner than nesting let statements.

      • kintrix@linux.communityEnglish
        3·
        17 days ago

        You can also use the pipe operators; but they are still experimental features.

        foo (bar (baz x)) = x |> baz |> bar |> foo = foo <| bar <| baz <| x

            • F04118F@feddit.nlOPEnglish
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              15 days ago

              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.

              Tap for spoiler

              The way you handle the do and dont is much cleaner

              .

              • Ellyse@ohai.social
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                15 days 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!

                • F04118F@feddit.nlOPEnglish
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                  15 days ago

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