Can it be more publicly announced? Right now, it is hiding in a small portion of an announcement

Especially because previously contestants did do it and were not penalized.

Thank you for the clarifications.

I find it funny to see that the Intellj Java to Kotlin converter (which is the only other good non-AI translator I can think of), is now banned collaterally — something that had been used for 5 years already ever since the first Kotlin Heroes.

Since language translation is not allowed, does some know any quick source of learning the basics of kotlin? like in an hour or something

Automatic translation from other programming languages to Kotlin is not allowed. I've added this information to the announcement.

Thank you for your comments and questions! Since the goal of the contest is to encourage participants to try Kotlin, we ask that you do not use AI to solve the problems or translate solutions from other languages.

I agree, it should not be allowed.

Yes, that makes sense.

I agree, it will be very silly if it is allowed in this contest in particular.

I was going to say why in general it should not be allowed on CF. I will update my comment as I omitted this.

It's not too long. This is a Kotlin only contest

This is probably not allowed, considering the allowed language is Kotlin only. If this were allowed, they would just open it to new languages. Why would you make it Kotlin only then allow people to convert?

just my take

Not relevant to me, but please clarify if language translations from other languages into Kotlin are allowed. (And also clarify for language translations on CF in general). It is not explicitly ruled out in the “Rule restricting the use of AI” blog, and it is debatable if it falls under allowed cases.

(Edit): For this contest it is quite clear that it should not be allowed. I personally think language translations in general should not be allowed. The reasoning is too long for me to summarizes in this short comment.