I’m a “Neovim Refugee” trying to get a deeper/better understanding of how emacs lisp works and how i can use it to expand on my emacs setup. I have never done anything in lisp before and still struggle to understand how single quotes signify a function or what ever.
With that said, i was also planning on doing AoC this year. Originally i wanted to look into zig or go, but now think that this might be the opportunity to dive into lisp for a bit.
But with knowing basically nothing: Is this even “viable”, or advisable? Should i be looking at common lisp instead? Or would you say that’s a pretty dumb idea and i should rather learn it in a different way?
There are two ways to answer this. First, people manage to do things like AoC in pretty odd and esoteric languages all the time, so doing it in elisp is totally viable. Is it advisable? Not sure. elisp really is technically a general purpose language, but it’s really meant for constructing Emacs components and extensions. I don’t think AoC would teach you how to do that sort of thing; it would only teach you how to write AoC type problems in a very odd lisp dialect that isn’t much like most other modern lisps.