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Title is pretty self-explanatory. However, #2 is a prerequisite of this issue.

Title is pretty self-explanatory. However, #2 is a prerequisite of this issue.

Not sure if this would work smoothly on Windows and MacOS. It should, but by its nature, it would have a few dependencies.

This issue may not even require any improvements on the tool itself. One simplistic strategy may involve writing a shell script for each OS so that the dependencies are installed. Any alternative approach is welcome as well.

Define a dict structure that would dictate how the code is compiled and interpreted.

This would also entail making the code flexible enough to compile/interpret a questionable source code in language X and compare its execution against a known solution implemented in language Y.

Title is pretty self-explanatory. However, #2 is a prerequisite of this issue.

Any character difference in comparing the outputs result in a mismatch, but many online judges have the capability to handle such negligible differences. It would be nice to have such a capability in this tool as well. Such a whitespace-omitting capability would probably be the default option, accompanied with a command-line option also implemented to enforce checking for an exact match.

I'm not sure the extent to which the prominent online judges tolerate such white spaces. So, if you intend to send a pull request for this issue, do take the guidelines of one of such judges as a standard, and share their relevant documentation on it so that I have a clear understanding of the specifications of your implementation, as well as an insurance that your design decisions are based on a widely used competitive programming platform. After all, this tool is mostly going to be used by competitive programmers that dwell such online judge platforms.