Make it easy to add other programming languages

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c, java, ruby
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by mapping the test scanner, test runner, submission/server file merging, stub and solution ZIP preparation, sandbox installed programs, and IDE plugin support. Determine how Java, C, and Maven are currently special-cased and define the extension points needed for another language. Done should mean adding a language does not require scattered special cases across these components.

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Description

enhancement important tricky

We have special-case support for Java, C and Maven. It would be nice if things were more pluggable.

Relevant components:

  • test scanner
  • test runner
  • merging of submission and server files
  • preparation of stub and solution zips
  • sandbox installed programs
  • IDE plugin support
Dominant language
Ruby
Stars
51
Forks
42
Avg merge
1h 27m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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