Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. For the 2023 edition of Advent of Code I solved all the puzzles using Rust.

You can find my solutions to the puzzles on github.com/simonkarman/advent-of-code-2023.

I especially enjoyed writing a solution to puzzle 5. I initially implemented the naive solution using a brute force approach, but later I found a more elegant solution using ranges.

During this month, I learned a lot about Rust's ownership and borrowing system while working on this project. It was a great experience overall! In January 2024 I gave a Rust workshop to 25 colleagues at Xebia based on what I had learned about Rust during this project.