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  1. Okay, I'm several days behind in #adventofcode and I have a little time before I should get to bed, so let's start at day 7 and go backwards, shall we?

    As usual, streaming at my #owncast server. Come hang out while I grumble at #RetroForth for a bit! stream.cincodenada.com

    #adventofcode2021 #forth #programming #livestream

  2. This year for #adventofcode, all the languages I was interested in playing with felt like they were gonna be a lot of work to learn and actually solve things in. I didn't feel quite up to it this year so I hacked out day 1 in #QB64 - which is a delight but hardly new, QBasic is the first language I coded in!

    But then @nihilazo started poking around in retroforth. Forth was high on my list but I didn't know what flavor to go with, so I gave retro a run, and it's nice, just enough bells and whistles to be approachable.

    After porting over my initial #QB64 solution to Forth and tearing my hair out over variable declarations, I took a fresh run at it with stacks in mind, and ended up with what I think is a pretty nice, tidy solution. Especially nice was that when I needed to clean up the stack to do the full solution rather than leave the whole list in memory, it was literally removing one word. Fun! Yay fedi folks!

    gitlab.com/cincodenada/advent-

    #adventofcode2021 #forth #stackbasedlanguages #retroforth #programming

  3. Who's joining Advent of Code this year?

    adventofcode.com/

    🔁 ✅

    Side note: Poll is set to 7 days, so a closing notification can serve as a reminder before or on December 1st. (At least here on Mastodon.)