Last year, I did [](adventofcode.com) as an exercise to learn . It's a sequence of daily programming puzzles in December. I'm thinking of doing it again this year and learning .

I don't try for speed, and I don't try to be the first to solve a problem. I take my time and solve each day's problem a day or two later. It would be nice to have people to chat with about solutions if anybody else is interested.

@bwbeach I'm a year behind you. This year I'm going to do #rust. I'm excited!

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@codo_sapien I really enjoyed learning . I like the language design and the community is friendly. It took me some time to understand borrowing. And I didn't get as far as multi-threading.

If i had to pick a new language for work, it might be .

@bwbeach I mean, being the most-loved language on the Stack Overflow survey for 6 years straight has to mean something, right?

That was the original reason why I want to check it out, but I've been listening to some a lot of #rust advocates, and I'm genuinely interested in the language features now.

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