Foreword This is going to be a rant about the current state of the software infrastructure as a whole. It has long been brewing in my mind and with writing it down I try to collect those thoughts in an orderly manner (possibly unsuccesfully). So this is mostly an opinion piece and reflects my world view, but I do hope it it has some worth to a reader or two.

The language Elixir .. oh boy. Installation is straight forward on debian, just apt-get install elixir. REPL is then available with iex and compiler with elixir $script_file. Looks really nice, but functional programming is not something I am good at and therefore this took quite a while… The task First part: Get a list of strings, split them in half, search for common chars in both halfs, sum up points for each unique character which fits into that profile.

Language of the day: Nim Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. In general Nim looks less “close to the machine” than Zig yesterday. Installation is easier than yesterday, just sudo aptitude install nim Compiling: nim c day2.nim Task of the day A list of two letter combinations is given, each letter signifies a rock, paper, scissors symbol, so the two letters are a round and the task is to count the points of one of the players (6 for winning, 1 for rock, 2 for paper, 3 for scissors).