Thursday, September 26, 2024

Overview of Golf

Golf is a new programming language and framework for developing web services and web applications. The reason for Golf is to make software development easier and more reliable.

Golf is a declarative language designed for simplicity. That means top-down approach, rather than bottom-up: it's more about describing what to do than coding it. It's a modeling language where pieces are assembled together quickly and with confidence. It's about the framework to create and deploy web services based on what they need to do from human perspective, more so than the technical one.

Underlying Golf's functionality are industry-standard Open Source libraries, such as SSL, Curl, MariaDB and others, in addition to native Golf's.

In extended mode, Golf is extensible with any standard libraries. You can also include C files directly in your project to compile with it. In this mode, Golf (obviously) does not guaratee memory safety, but it does not necessarily mean it's not safe either.