community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/2432017?p_p_auth=hMHse2BJ Finished my Advent of Code solutions in WL this year. A couple of guys at work were participating with Python and Rust and had a pretty positive response to the conciseness of WL.

@MichaelHale Wow, these are really really neat. I've been working my way through project euler in WL and half the time I honestly wouldn't know where to start if I were working in a different language.

@CarlLange AoC is a fun event. Like PE, you can use any language. Inputs randomized per person, just submit answer. Quirky story to loosely tie the problems together. It's impressive that one guy puts it all together each year and hundreds of thousands participate now. I did most of them last year the next day for completion, but this year I did them all, and tried at midnight release.

I was pretty happy to make the top 100 on one problem. I might never again haha. The top guys are unbelievably fast. #1 ranked guy was International Math Olympiad winner.

I like to watch the speed contest they host at the Wolfram Conference because they utilize the variety of things WL can do better. But for number of people participating, algorithmic variety, and seeing how fast the best people in the world are across all languages, AoC is pretty cool.

I had two coworkers also participating this year who did about 2/3 of them.

I did find a bug to report, but not sure if this was before I switched to v13. I saw that weighted graph performance when inputting the weights via Annotation runs way, way slower than inputting the weights via the VertexWeights option.