Timeline for answer to Things to avoid when writing challenges by nimi
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| May 22, 2025 at 8:39 | comment | added | Steve Bennett | Fwiw, I think it's perfectly fine to make allowances for different languages, in the name of inclusion. The goal of the site is to let people solve interesting challenges in the languages of their choice. I don't see any harm in allowing them to do that, and even less so with the "non-competing" strategy above. There's no need to be so gate-keepy. | |
| Dec 13, 2021 at 15:26 | comment | added | Xwtek | I disagree. The whole point of this question codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2447/… is exactly to allow different things in language with different capabilities. Otherwise, any question that asks an input will be unable to be answered using /// because injecting the source code is the only way to input in ///, but we don't want hardcoding in other languages. | |
| Dec 10, 2016 at 14:55 | comment | added | trichoplax is on Codidact now | @Mego Yes I agree about languages post dating the challenge. I just don't like solutions that solve a different challenge (or challenges that invite this). | |
| Dec 10, 2016 at 1:11 | comment | added | user45941 | @trichoplax I don't mind non-competing submissions if they're non-competing because the language came after the challenge, and the language wasn't obviously designed to solve the challenge well. | |
| Oct 3, 2016 at 15:58 | comment | added | Nathan Merrill | If a language cannot do X, I don't see any reason to try to include that language. We've got plenty of other challenges that language can compete in. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 16:45 | comment | added | trichoplax is on Codidact now | I strongly agree with this answer. I'm not a fan of non-competing submissions. If it doesn't fit the challenge, it should be posted elsewhere. | |
| Sep 4, 2016 at 23:52 | comment | added | user45941 | Full support on this one. A compromise that I've found can be effective is "Do X. If your language cannot do X, you can do Y instead, but the submission will be non-competing". | |
| Sep 4, 2016 at 21:58 | history | answered | nimi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |