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By JakobZ, history, 3 weeks ago, In English

Hello, I am thinking of creating my own language that transpiles to C and is specialized for competitive programming, more specifically Codeforces. Would be competing with this tool against the rules? Generated C code would potentially be obfuscated, but it would put the source in the comment on top, so it would be understandable for someone familiar with this language. I don't want to get banned so I am curious if this is against any rule.

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IIRC there was one guy who did something similar (created transpiller from their own language to C++) and he didn't get banned. But I think it depends on level of obfuscation that your transpiller generates. If resulting program will be a bunch of unreadable low-level instructions then you might get in trouble with cheater detector.

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    Thank you for the response. I will try to make c code as readable as possible and also provide original source in the comment above c code.