[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.