2023 came with another edition of Advent of Code, an advent calendar with programming challenges. In many ways - e.g. the assessment of both performance of and correctness on official leaderboards - the programming challenges are similar to regular programming competitions. Yet, there is also a large part of the community approaching Advent of Code more casually: people playing around with funky programming languages (e.g. Nix or Nim) or people streaming their daily programming sessions.
