System calls are allowed in Code Golf?

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#1

I’ve recently started Golfing (primarily in C) and it’s been a lot of fun! It’s a different kind of optimisation, and I love optimising.

That said, there’s one issue: the leaderboards are completely unrepresentative for many languages because system calls are allowed. This means that someone could submit a nominally C solution which actually runs bash code (for example) via the system function.

I’ve done a bit of searching and know this has come up before, though not very recently AFAICT. Is this something that there’s interest in addressing/any kind of roadmap for a fix?

It’s not enough to stop my enjoyment, but it would be nice to compare myself against the best solutions in my chosen language.

#2

Try searching system in this post and you’ll find some relevant discussion: https://www.codingame.com/forum/t/power-of-thor-codesize-puzzle-discussion/687/1

#3

Thanks for this: I’d come across this thread but hadn’t seen all of the relevant comments.

I can’t see anything indicating whether there’s a fix planned in general, but some of the comments indicate system calls are disabled for Javascript :thinking:

I guess I just need to hope that something similar gets rolled out across the board.