Thoughts on Advent of Code 2025

Today is the last day of this year s Advent of Code, cut from 24.5 days to 12[1]. Overall I think the reduced scope is a good thing, both because it reduces stress coming up to the holidays, and it hopefully keeps the creator Eric Wastl s motivation up so he can continue with this project. We missed a few favorites this year. There was no game of life, nor any register rodeo. Maybe that will be a…