Making my Advent Of Code solution cross-platform (a developer journey)

Hello ! I’m Xavier Jouvenot and today, I want to reflect a little bit on the solution to Advent Of Code 2021 challenges I have done so far, and more precisely on how and why I have made my solution cross-platform.

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My Advent of Code journey

Most of you, who are reading this article may not know, but my first encounter with the Advent Of Code challenges actually matches the time when I have created my first personal website (10xlearner.com) and my first post was about how I came up with a solution for the first problem of Advent Of Code 2015. Even if it was in 2019, I wanted to start the very first challenge ever propose by Advent Of Code.

I end up creating 18 posts, one for the 18th first problem of the Advent Of Code 2015, and then, I went on other projects, write some other articles, stop for a moment, write again, stop again, … well you get the point 😄.

2 years and 7 months later, I posted a new post about my solution to the first challenge of Advent Of Code 2021. My goal was (and still is) to write one article, each week about how I found the solution to a day problem of Advent of Code 2021. We are now at 10 days solved (when I am writing this post). And I have to…