Day 5 of advent of code done. Today was the dumbest parser yet. It was a few characters off of being valid yaml, but alas.

Today was also the “datasets so large they overflow common data structures” day. So iterating over all the generated elements took 900 seconds or so in Typescript.

I *almost* didn’t do it, but after doing the parser the actual algorithm was super easy once you read the dozen paragraphs it took to explain how the obfuscated input worked.

I love programming -_-