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!

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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.

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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

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@F04118F which I promptly did away with because I couldn’t be arsed today lol

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Nix regex sucks. Is there any package with a reasonable regex matchAll?

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@F04118F if it’s for todays advent of code, I used split and it worked fine. See my live steam on YouTube or my GitHub .

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