[bdr]

It's worth noting that betaveros won several previous Advents of Code without using Noulith. You can't attribute too much of this year's success to the language. Still, it's pretty cool, and I've really enjoyed reading his solutions. Noulith feels like walking through a syntactic candy store and eating whatever you want.

[JoachimS]

More exactly winning 2019, 2020, 2021, and runner up 2018, which seems to be the first year participating.

By the looks of it right now, Betaveros will win 2022 too. One could say that Betaveros dominates AoC.

[cjbprime]

Including winning 2021 and 2020! I'd guess that exclusively using a new programming language that you recently invented is actually an impediment to speed, though apparently not a significant enough one.

[porphyra]

Having the syntactic sugar might make up a little bit for the overhead of using a recently invented language though.

[jackmott42]

the language seems designed for advent of code speed, so it might be a win