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?
FWIW, I learned Rust and Python using AoC - I don’t see why you couldn’t pick up ELisp the same way. As long as you have an idea how to solve the problem, you should be able to express that algorithm in ELisp.
The one challenge you may face is the availability of data structures in ELisp (stacks, queues, deques, etc), but I’m not an expert there, so someone else may have some pointers.