progress on this horrible pathfinding

it kinda works but last_direction doesn't funciton

.vscode/aoc.code-snippets

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+{
+	// Place your advent-of-code-2023 workspace snippets here. Each snippet is defined under a snippet name and has a scope, prefix, body and 
+	// description. Add comma separated ids of the languages where the snippet is applicable in the scope field. If scope 
+	// is left empty or omitted, the snippet gets applied to all languages. The prefix is what is 
+	// used to trigger the snippet and the body will be expanded and inserted. Possible variables are: 
+	// $1, $2 for tab stops, $0 for the final cursor position, and ${1:label}, ${2:another} for placeholders. 
+	// Placeholders with the same ids are connected.
+	// Example:
+	// "Print to console": {
+	// 	"scope": "javascript,typescript",
+	// 	"prefix": "log",
+	// 	"body": [
+	// 		"console.log('$1');",
+	// 		"$2"
+	// 	],
+	// 	"description": "Log output to console"
+	// }
+	"Day template": {
+		"scope": "rust",
+		"prefix": "day",
+		"body": [
+			"use crate::utils::Day;",
+			"",
+			"#[derive(Debug, Default)]",
+			"pub struct Day$1 {",
+			"\tpub input: String,",
+			"}",
+			"",
+			"impl Day for Day$1 {",
+			"\tfn part1(&mut self) -> String {",
+			"\t\t",
+			"\t\t",		
+			"\t\ttodo!()",
+			"\t}",
+			"",
+			"\tfn part2(&mut self) -> String {",
+			"\t\t",		
+			"\t\t",
+			"\t\ttodo!()",
+			"\t}",
+			"}"
+
+		],
+		"description": "Creates a template for an AOC day"
+	}
+}

Cargo.lock

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ checksum = "f26201604c87b1e01bd3d98f8d5d9a8fcbb815e8cedb41ffccbeb4bf593a35fe"
 name = "advent"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
+ "array2d",
  "clru",
  "getrandom",
  "itertools",
@@ -122,6 +123,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.48.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "array2d"
+version = "0.3.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d8b39cb2c1bf5a7c0dd097aa95ab859cf87dab5a4328900f5388942dc1889f74"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "autocfg"
 version = "1.1.0"

cli/src/main.rs

@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ async fn main() {
             let deviation = (((max - min).pow(2) / 16) as f64).sqrt() as u128;
             let range = max - min;
             let median = if timings.len() % 2 == 0 {
-                (timings[timings.len()/2-1]+timings[timings.len()/2]).as_nanos() as f64 / 2.0
+                (timings[timings.len() / 2 - 1] + timings[timings.len() / 2]).as_nanos() as f64
+                    / 2.0
             } else {
                 timings[timings.len() / 2].as_nanos() as f64
             };

lib/Cargo.toml

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ scraper = "0.18.1"
 reqwest = "0.11.22"
 itertools = "0.12.0"
 clru = "0.6.1"
+array2d = "0.3.2"
 
 [dependencies.getrandom]
 version = "0.2.11"

lib/src/day17/mod.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
+use crate::utils::Day;
+use array2d::Array2D;
+use itertools::Itertools;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Default)]
+pub struct Day17 {
+    pub input: String,
+}
+
+#[derive(PartialEq, Clone, Debug)]
+pub enum Direction {
+    North,
+    East,
+    South,
+    West,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+pub struct State {
+    cost: usize,
+    row: usize,
+    column: usize,
+    tentative_distance: Option<usize>,
+    last_direction: Option<Direction>,
+    moves_in_same_direction: Option<u8>,
+    prev: Option<(usize, usize)>
+}
+
+impl Day17 {
+    pub fn calculate_node(current: &State, node: &mut State, direction: Direction) {
+        let new_distance = current.tentative_distance.unwrap_or_default() + node.cost;
+        if node.tentative_distance.is_some_and(|d| d > new_distance) || node.tentative_distance.is_none() {
+            node.prev = Some((current.row, current.column));
+            node.tentative_distance = Some(new_distance);
+            node.last_direction = Some(
+                match (node.row as isize - current.row as isize, node.column as isize - current.column as isize) {
+                    (0, -1) => Direction::West,
+                    (0, 1) => Direction::East,
+                    (1, 0) => Direction::South,
+                    (-1, 0) => Direction::North,
+                    _ => panic!()
+                }
+            );
+            node.moves_in_same_direction = Some(match current.last_direction == node.last_direction {
+                true => current.moves_in_same_direction.unwrap() + 1,
+                false => 0
+            })
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Day for Day17 {
+    fn part1(&mut self) -> String {
+        let columns = self.input.find('\n').unwrap();
+        let rows = (self.input.len() + 1) / columns - 1;
+
+        let mut parsed = Array2D::from_iter_row_major(
+            self.input.split('\n').enumerate().flat_map(|(i, str)| {
+                str.chars().enumerate().map(move |(j, b)| State {
+                    cost: b.to_digit(10).unwrap() as usize,
+                    column: j,
+                    row: i,
+                    tentative_distance: None,
+                    moves_in_same_direction: None,
+                    last_direction: None,
+                    prev: None
+                })
+            }),
+            rows,
+            columns,
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        let mut unvisited = Vec::<(usize, usize)>::from_iter(
+            (0..columns).flat_map(|i| (0..rows).map(move |j| (i, j))),
+        );
+        let mut current_pos = (0usize, 0usize);
+
+        loop {
+            let current = parsed[current_pos].clone();
+
+            if current.last_direction != Some(Direction::South)
+                && !(current.last_direction == Some(Direction::North)
+                    && current.moves_in_same_direction == Some(2))
+                && let Some(neighbor) = parsed.get_mut(current.row.wrapping_sub(1), current.column)
+            {
+                // Going north
+                Self::calculate_node(&current, neighbor, Direction::North)
+            }
+
+            if current.last_direction != Some(Direction::West)
+                && !(current.last_direction == Some(Direction::East)
+                    && current.moves_in_same_direction == Some(2))
+                && let Some(neighbor) = parsed.get_mut(current.row, current.column + 1)
+            {
+                // Going east
+                Self::calculate_node(&current, neighbor, Direction::East)
+            }
+
+            if current.last_direction != Some(Direction::North)
+                && !(current.last_direction == Some(Direction::South)
+                    && current.moves_in_same_direction == Some(2))
+                && let Some(neighbor) = parsed.get_mut(current.row + 1, current.column)
+            {
+                // Going south
+                Self::calculate_node(&current, neighbor, Direction::South)
+            }
+
+            if current.last_direction != Some(Direction::East)
+                && !(current.last_direction == Some(Direction::West)
+                    && current.moves_in_same_direction == Some(2))
+                && let Some(neighbor) = parsed.get_mut(current.row, current.column.wrapping_sub(1))
+            {
+                // Going west
+                Self::calculate_node(&current, neighbor, Direction::West)
+            }
+
+            if (current.column, current.row) == (columns - 1, rows - 1) {
+                break;
+            } else {
+                unvisited.remove(
+                    unvisited
+                        .iter()
+                        .find_position(|&&coords| coords == (current.row, current.column))
+                        .unwrap()
+                        .0,
+                );
+                current_pos = unvisited
+                    .iter()
+                    .filter_map(|&coords| {
+                        parsed[coords]
+                            .tentative_distance
+                            .map(|distance| (coords.0, coords.1, distance))
+                    })
+                    .min_by_key(|x| x.2)
+                    .map(|(row, column, _)| (row, column))
+                    .unwrap();
+            }
+        }
+
+        let mut path = Vec::<(usize, usize)>::new();
+        let mut cursor = (columns - 1, rows - 1);
+
+        while let Some(prev) = parsed[cursor].prev {
+            path.push(prev);
+            cursor = prev;
+        }
+
+        for (y, row_iter) in parsed.rows_iter().enumerate() {
+            for (x, element) in row_iter.enumerate() {
+                if !path.contains(&(x, y)) {
+                    print!("{}", element.cost);
+                } else {
+                    print!("{}", match element.last_direction.as_ref() {
+                        Some(Direction::North) => "^",
+                        Some(Direction::East) => ">",
+                        Some(Direction::South) => "v",
+                        Some(Direction::West) => "<",
+                        _ => "+"
+                    }/*, element.moves_in_same_direction.unwrap_or_default() */);
+                }
+            }
+            println!();
+        }
+
+        parsed[(rows - 1, columns - 1)].tentative_distance.unwrap().to_string()
+    }
+
+    fn part2(&mut self) -> String {
+        todo!()
+    }
+}

lib/src/lib.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#![feature(inline_const)]
+#![feature(inline_const, let_chains)]
 
 use std::{collections::HashMap, num::NonZeroUsize};
 
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ use day13::Day13;
 use day14::Day14;
 use day15::Day15;
 use day16::Day16;
+use day17::Day17;
 use day2::Day2;
 use day3::Day3;
 use day4::Day4;
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ pub mod day13;
 pub mod day14;
 pub mod day15;
 pub mod day16;
+pub mod day17;
 pub mod day2;
 pub mod day3;
 pub mod day4;
@@ -79,6 +81,7 @@ pub fn get_day(day: u8, input: String) -> Box<dyn Day> {
         14 => Box::new(Day14 { input }),
         15 => Box::new(Day15 { input }),
         16 => Box::new(Day16 { input }),
+        17 => Box::new(Day17 { input }),
         _ => panic!("Invalid day #"),
     }
 }