My attempt to solve Advent of Code 2016 using F# in order to better learn the language. I don't have much experience with functional programming languages, so this is my attempt to get a better feel for the paradigm.

F# does allow for mutability and loops, but it's not "idiomatic," so I opt against using these features, relying mostly on recursion and pattern matching.

The code in this repository targets Mono, not the modern .NET version of F#, but it should be compatible. The most glaring differences I've come across are:

• String interpolation with the $"{var}" syntax does not work
• Indexing can only be done with the var.[x] syntax, the modern .NET F# allows for indexing with var[x] instead
• The List.transpose function does not exist. But you can easily make your own