It’s that time of year again! Just like last year, I’ll be posting my solutions to the Advent of Code puzzles. This year, I’ll be solving the puzzles in Rust. I’ll post my solutions and code to GitHub as well. After finishing last year (and 2015-2019) in Julia, I needed to spend some time with Rust again! If you haven’t given AoC a try, I encourage you to do so along with me!
It’s that time of year again! Just like last year, I’ll be posting my solutions to the Advent of Code puzzles. This year, I’ll be solving the puzzles in Rust. I’ll post my solutions and code to GitHub as well. After finishing last year (and 2015-2019) in Julia, I needed to spend some time with Rust again! If you haven’t given AoC a try, I encourage you to do so along with me!
It’s that time of year again! Just like last year, I’ll be posting my solutions to the Advent of Code puzzles. This year, I’ll be solving the puzzles in Rust. I’ll post my solutions and code to GitHub as well. After finishing last year (and 2015-2019) in Julia, I needed to spend some time with Rust again! If you haven’t given AoC a try, I encourage you to do so along with me!
It’s that time of year again! Just like last year, I’ll be posting my solutions to the Advent of Code puzzles. This year, I’ll be solving the puzzles in Rust. I’ll post my solutions and code to GitHub as well. After finishing last year (and 2015-2019) in Julia, I needed to spend some time with Rust again! If you haven’t given AoC a try, I encourage you to do so along with me!
It’s that time of year again! Just like last year, I’ll be posting my solutions to the Advent of Code puzzles. This year, I’ll be solving the puzzles in Rust. I’ll post my solutions and code to GitHub as well. After finishing last year (and 2015-2019) in Julia, I needed to spend some time with Rust again! If you haven’t given AoC a try, I encourage you to do so along with me!
The season is nearly upon us! And by the season, I of course am referring to the Advent of Code (what else?). This year I plan to take my first pass at all the puzzles in Rust, and I’ve already set up my repository. This past year, I went back and finished all the prior years of AoC in Julia (repo here), which was really a delightful experience. I considered on reflection, though, just how much I had leaned on regular expressions for input parsing over the course of those many, many puzzles.
One of the benefits of engaging in online communities, at least communities of other coders, is that it gives me a ton of opportunities to learn something new. Since my family and I recently moved to the Upstate area of South Carolina, in addition to great weather and plenty of places to hike, I managed to find a (relatively) new meetup group: Code and Data Science Group of South Carolina. If you’re anywhere near the area, I’d encourage you to come join us for a meetup!
Photo by Allan Mas from Pexels The Problem Recently, I was posed the “Longest Increasing Subsequence” problem in the CodeConnector community on Slack. It’s one of those coding questions that shows up in some form or another on a lot of coding puzzle/interview prep sites. If you haven’t seen it before (like I hadn’t), the problem statement is as follows (this description comes from LeetCode): Given an integer array nums, return the length of the longest strictly increasing subsequence.
I’ve mentioned in other posts that I’ve been learning the Rust programming language, with the explicit intention of implementing some R functionality in Rust for performance gains. I discuss this rationale in more detail in THIS blog post. In that post, I discuss the rustbind project, where I explore strategies for calling Rust code in an R package. The goal of that project is to provide a straightforward set of patterns that I (and other developers) can leverage for integrating Rust into future R projects.
I’ve recently (since the beginning of 2021) been trying my hand learning and using Rust, and so far it has been a really good experience. Rust has a lot to recommend it, including top-notch tooling, inherent memory safety, and blazing speed. That last part comes from the fact that Rust is a compiled, systems programming language and was the inspiration for picking up Rust in the first place. You see, I absolutely love R.
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