An attempt to solve Advent of Code 2024 in Forth - specifically gForth.
I have never done any low level systems programming before nor used Forth before creating this repository. It is very far outside my experience and day job which is essential data science in Python. The why is that Forth interested me and I wanted a challenge.
I was toying between Forth, Haskell, Common Lisp, Lean4 and Emacs Lisp. In the end Forth one as it seemed the most out of my comfort zone and has already got me thinking a lot more about the hardware I’m working with.
I plan on slowly building a basic matrix algebra library which I’ll then add to and use as the advent of code challenges progress. All the input data is in src/input and all of the AoC challenges are in src/day_*.fth - every other .4th file is part of the “library”.
The solutions are most likely terrible compared to experienced Forth programmers but everyone has to start from somewhere!