[fooddood]

One of the most talented engineers I ever met was 24. He built a 3D engine in JavaScript for fun as well as a raycaster for fun. He also enjoyed challenging himself in all sorts of interesting ways like doing Advent of Code in C++.

[pxx]

What's weird about doing Advent of Code in C++? You'll find a sizable number of the people on the leaderboard do it that way. I think it's partially due to competition programming habits dying extremely hard.

Of course, Python is by far the most popular, but C++ isn't that much more verbose.

[sgillen]

it depends, I think some people do advent of code did it as sort of race every day, in which case I think C++ would be a pretty big challenge IMO.