Rust solutions to the Advent of Code (AoC) programming puzzles. Someday I might even find the time to finish them all.
In roughly descending order:
- Have fun solving meaningless problems 🎉
- Practice writing readable, hopefully idiomatic Rust code. If I were optimizing for time, I'd write hacky Python instead. I'm still fairly new to Rust though.
- Find excuses to experiment with various crates and techniques.
- Don't look up direct hints or solutions until I've solved the problem on my own.
- Write enough tests to provide confidence, but don't go overboard with input validation. Test the given input as a bare minimum. Similarly, don't bother spending time on "proper" error handling. Just panic.
- Generally try to optimize for runtime speed, keeping in mind rule #1. At the very least, avoid totally naive brute-force if I can come up with a better method.
First, install Rust + Cargo
Each solution has an associated binary in the repo. You can let Cargo tell you what's available via:
cargo run --releaseTo run the solution to Day 1 of 2020:
cargo run --release --bin 2020-day1