all that said, i did do advent of code today (first year lol) in rust and it was Pretty Good! i understand a non-zero amount of Language Features now (certainly enough for whiteboard-interview level puzzles) but just need to look up the stdlib constantly (that'll get there)
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i think the serious take is "advent of code being completely centered around a religious holiday, even if that religious holiday has been commercialized to the point of absurdity, is evidence of the way that christianity is viewed as the Default in the english-speaking world, which is often extremely alienating for people who are not christians and were not raised as christians" but i am also not especially in having a conversation so like. w/e
true, it makes zero sense. i never really got the whole christmas stuff, it just seems so weird that we all need to celebrate this christian holiday for no reason? we could just. enjoy winter without jesus but apparently not
Advent in particular is weird because it's not really a mainstream Christian thing in the US, it's only celebrated by Catholics and the more Catholic-aligned Protestants, maybe about 33% of Americans (roughly half of Christians, back of the napkin) have celebrated Advent. probably most of the rest have only heard of it in the context of advent calendars, because candy lol. In that context, I'm actually weirdly comfortable with advent because it's managed the rare feat of being a religious observance more commercialized than Christmas, at least by the metric "people who think of it as a commercial thing : people who think of it as a religious thing".
combining that with Advent of Code clearly taking inspiration from the advent calendar more than the religious aspects (I don't see any pink and purple candle wreaths or emphasis on Sundays, also it doesn't even start on the right day rofl), and it doesn't bother me. (speaking as someone with a moderate aversion to Catholic traditions due to my personal history.)
Was going to mention the start date. This year, Advent is as long as possible (starting on Nov. 27). Next year, it as short as possible and starts on Dec. 3rd.
Seriously lol, the height of the “my brother in christ” meme had me feeling normal
how about a matunda ya kwanza of code, where we all do our little puzzles for a week, then physically consume an sdk on new years
I have had this thought for years as one of my programmer friends participates.
and lo, the program ran uninterrupted for 8 nights without a single bug. the Jewish coders rejoiced
On the one hand, Advent calendars could be seen as just as Christian as the song "Santa Baby" or "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas" or the claymation Rudolph TV special. Especially an "Advent calendar" that is explicitly all about Santa and the elves.
On the other hand, Christmas isn't like, say, Halloween or the 4th of July: it is also still a religious holiday for lots of Christians (that weekend is going to be a busy one at the church) and even to the extent it's been secularized, it's been a secularization that Jews were historically explicitly excluded from. (Hence Chanukah being as big a thing in the US as it is)
So it might not be religiously Christian per se, but is certainly gentile. So yeah, that's fair.
I might try "programming Purim" where you aren't given the problem until you can show evidence of being too drunk and/or sleep deprived to reliably type "Mordecai" or "Haman" when asked.
"Chanukah Chosting": post an original CSS crime each night for eight nights.
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“Looking up the stdlib constantly” protip: if you go to std.rs/whatever it will redirect you to the stdlib docs searching for “whatever”
ooh that's a fun trick. i've mostly just been using dash (https://kapeli.com/dash) b/c i already use it for Most Things so the muscle memory is there
Oh that looks nice. I like that it can also eat the docs for your package and presumably all of its dependencies.
i've been rusting professionally for god knows how long and i spend most of my time staring at std docs
I've been a professional C++ programmer for over 15 years and I still have to check EVERY TIME whether a map insert returns true if it's a new entry or if it was already in there
btw since you need to look up the stdlib constantly it may be worth installing the Rust search plugin to your browser (https://rust.extension.sh/)