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).

The programming language I am trying to participate in this years Advent of Code and implemented the excercise of day 1. Since doing this with a programming language I am actually halfway proficiently with, would be kinda boring, I did it with Zig. The first problem was to get an actual compiler for the thing, since Zig is new enough to not be present in Debian. So, building from source it was (everybody can download a binary).

So, this is the first blog post here and, as one might imagine, it is mainly for testing purposes. I am trying to get accustomed to hugo as a framework to create this site. Since I didn’t want to write my own boiler plate for creating a website starting with this seems to be a good choice right now, but we will see if it stays that way. At the moment, I cannot say what kind of content will appear here or if any, but if a stray thought crosses my mind, which I think is worth sharing with you, dear reader, it will appear hear.