This is a follow-up to my previous article, where I convince you to try Kotlin for Competitive Programming. But if you’re already convinced, then this article is for you! It is a step-by-step guide for setting up your local environment.

What we are aiming for

Your local workflow should help you achieve a few different things:

1. A consistent process for starting a new contest, and for creating new solution files.
2. Quick access to repetitive code that is necessary for reading input and writing output in every problem
3. Access to tools like the Intellisense, a Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL), and a debugging interface.

The following setup ensures all of these things for you.

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