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console.log('Hello World')
C
Got super stumped on part 2. I'd add an obstacle for every tile on the path of part 1 but I kept getting wrong results, even after fixing some edge cases. Spent too much time looking at terminal dumps and mp4 visualisations.
Eventually I gave up and wrote a for(y) for(x) loop, trying an obstacle in every possible tile, and that gave the correct answer. Even that brute force took only 2.5 ish seconds on my 2015 PC! But having that solution allowed me to narrow it down again to a reasonably efficient version similar to what I had before. Still I don't know where I went wrong the first time.
Code
https://github.com/sjmulder/aoc/blob/master/2024/c/day06.c