[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