Day 10: Hoof It
Megathread guidelines
- Keep top level comments as only solutions, if you want to say something other than a solution put it in a new post. (replies to comments can be whatever)
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FAQ
- What is this?: Here is a post with a large amount of details: https://programming.dev/post/6637268
- Where do I participate?: https://adventofcode.com/
- Is there a leaderboard for the community?: We have a programming.dev leaderboard with the info on how to join in this post: https://programming.dev/post/6631465
Uiua
Run it here!
How to read this
Uiua has a very helpful
pathfunction built in which returns all valid paths that match your criteria (using diijkstra/a* depending on whether third function is provided), making a lot of path-finding stuff almost painfully simple, as you just need to provide a starting node and three functions: return next nodes, return confirmation if we’ve reached a suitable target node (here testing if it’s = 9), (optional) return heuristic cost to destination (here set to constant 1), .