I used Haskell. Definitely not the most efficient or optimized solution:
module Main where import qualified Data.Map.Strict as M import Data.Maybe (mapMaybe) type Coordinate = (Int, Int) toCoordinateMap :: [[a]] -> M.Map (Int, Int) a toCoordinateMap a = M.fromList $ do (y, row) <- zip [0 ..] a (x, v) <- zip [0 ..] row pure ((x, y), v) findAdjSeats :: Coordinate -> M.Map (Int, Int) Char -> [Coordinate] findAdjSeats (x, y) seats = filter (`M.member` seats) [ (x-1, y-1), (x, y-1), (x+1, y-1), (x-1, y), (x+1, y), (x-1, y+1), (x, y+1), (x+1, y+1) ] findFirstSeatInSight :: Coordinate -> M.Map Coordinate Char -> [Coordinate] findFirstSeatInSight coord seatMap = mapMaybe (firstInSight coord) [ (-1, -1), (0, -1), (1, -1), (-1, 0), (1, 0), (-1, 1), (0, 1), (1, 1) ] where firstInSight (x, y) (dx, dy) = (x-dx, y-dy) `M.lookup` seatMap >>= aux where aux seat = if seat == 'L' || seat == '#' then Just (x-dx, y-dy) else firstInSight (x-dx, y-dy) (dx, dy) runSimulation :: M.Map Coordinate Char -> (Coordinate -> M.Map Coordinate Char -> [Coordinate]) -> Int -> Int runSimulation seatMap findAdjSeatsF occupiedSeats = if seatMap == nextCycle then length $ M.filter (== '#') nextCycle else runSimulation nextCycle findAdjSeatsF occupiedSeats where noOccupiedAdjSeats = not . any ((== Just '#') . (`M.lookup` seatMap)) moreOrEqThanNOccupiedSeats n = (>= n) . length . filter ((== Just '#') . (`M.lookup` seatMap)) nextCycle = M.mapWithKey (\coordinate c -> case c of '.' -> '.' 'L' -> if noOccupiedAdjSeats $ findAdjSeatsF coordinate seatMap then '#' else 'L' '#' -> if moreOrEqThanNOccupiedSeats occupiedSeats $ findAdjSeatsF coordinate seatMap then 'L' else '#' _ -> error $ "cannot do" ++ show c ) seatMap main :: IO () main = do input <- lines <$> readFile "input.txt" let seatMap = toCoordinateMap input print $ runSimulation seatMap findAdjSeats 4 print $ runSimulation seatMap findFirstSeatInSight 5
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I used Haskell. Definitely not the most efficient or optimized solution: