golf

Golf is a programming language and application server for building web services and back-end solutions on Linux. Golf is easy to develop with, memory-safe and high-performance. Read about Golf. Visit Documentation. Try Hello World. Visit Blog for useful articles and changelog. Licensed under Apache 2 Free Open Source License. Source code is at https://github.com/golf-lang/golf.

Install

Install Golf on Ubuntu (or similar):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:golf-lang/golf -y
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install golf

or install Golf on Redhat (and similar):

sudo dnf -y install epel-release
sudo dnf -y copr enable golf-lang/golf-lang
sudo dnf -y install golf

You can also install-golf-for-ubuntu-from-source or install-golf-for-redhat-from-source

Current version is 363. This release passed 2346 automated functional tests.

Example of Golf code (from SaaS example):

Blog articles and examples:

• 2025-03-29 FIFO in Golf
• 2025-03-23 How to debug Golf programs with gdb
• 2025-03-19 Maximum file size uploaded to Golf server
• 2025-03-10 How to know Golf version
• 2025-03-01 Web framework for C programming language
• 2025-02-23 DEB package on Ubuntu and Debian
• 2025-02-21 34000 requests per second on a modest laptop
• 2025-02-12 Use C language API to talk to Golf Server
• 2025-02-04 Golf package page on AUR for Arch Linux
• 2025-02-02 Ubuntu apt package available for Golf
• 2025-01-30 How to send email with Golf
• 2025-01-28 Fast JSON parser with little coding
• 2025-01-03 What is application server?
• 2024-12-26 Encryption: ciphers, digests, salt, IV
• 2024-12-15 Distributed computing made easy
• 2024-12-12 How is memory organized in Golf
• 2024-12-08 Web file manager in less than 100 lines of code
• 2024-12-02 Passing parameters between local request handlers
• 2024-11-22 How to create Golf application
• 2024-11-21 Getting help for Golf with man pages
• 2024-11-12 Multi-tenant SaaS (Notes web application) in 200 lines of code
• 2024-10-28 Web Services Security
• 2024-10-21 Web services with MariaDB
• 2024-10-17 Web service calling web service
• 2024-10-13 What is Web Service
• 2024-10-11 Cache as a web service
• 2024-10-09 Cache server in 30 lines
• 2024-10-06 Memory safety: the cost in performance
• 2024-09-29 SQLite with Golf
• 2024-09-29 Copy-code icon added
• 2024-09-26 Overview of Golf
• 2024-09-21 Web service Hello World
• 2024-09-21 Hello World as a Service
• 2024-09-19 Using Vim color schemes with Golf
• 2024-09-17 Hello World in Golf
• 2024-09-13 Introduction to Golf
• 2024-09-12 Initial Golf release

Releases:

• 2025-03-31 Golf 363 released
• 2025-03-16 Golf 324 released
• 2025-03-11 Golf 297 released
• 2025-03-11 Golf 295 released
• 2025-03-10 Golf 288 released
• 2025-03-02 Golf 273 released
• 2025-02-23 Golf 261 released
• 2025-02-19 Golf 253 released
• 2025-02-16 Golf 247 released
• 2025-02-13 Golf 244 released
• 2025-02-11 Golf 241 released
• 2025-02-08 Golf 231 released
• 2025-02-02 Golf 210 released
• 2025-01-27 Golf 191 released
• 2025-01-26 Golf 184 released
• 2025-01-18 Golf 171 released
• 2025-01-14 Golf 155 released
• 2024-12-25 Golf 136 released
• 2024-12-24 Golf 132 released
• 2024-12-08 Golf 124 released
• 2024-12-04 Golf 121 released
• 2024-11-29 Golf 117 released
• 2024-11-26 Golf 114 released
• 2024-11-22 Golf 109 released
• 2024-11-10 Golf 91 released
• 2024-11-05 Golf 87 released
• 2024-10-28 Golf 76 released
• 2024-10-23 Golf 70 released
• 2024-10-19 Golf 65 released
• 2024-10-14 Golf 56 released
• 2024-10-08 Golf 54 released
• 2024-10-01 Golf 50 released
• 2024-09-27 Golf 44 released
• 2024-09-24 Golf 37 released
• 2024-09-20 Golf 32 released
  Contact email [email protected]

Visit official Golf home page.

See CONTRIBUTING.md file on how to contribute.