Conquering Advent of Code 2024 with BQN
2025-01-25
The author participated in the 2024 Advent of Code challenge and chose to learn the array language BQN. The article details the learning journey, covering setup, documentation and tooling experiences, and an introduction to BQN's features such as its unique operators, array manipulations, and function definitions. Several Advent of Code solutions are shared, showcasing BQN's strengths in handling arrays and grid problems, contrasting BQN with imperative languages. While initially challenging, the author ultimately finds BQN a fun and powerful language, particularly suited for solving programming puzzles.
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array language