GOLF(2gg)

💖 GOLF 💖 (2gg)

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✨ NAME ✨

web-framework-for-C-programming-language — the Golf documentation, and yeah it's the C-language flavored one 🍓

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

GOLF AS A WEB FRAMEWORK FOR C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE 👑

okay so here's the tea: Golf source code translates to C before compilation, for maximum performance. slay. which means Golf literally has the ability to include C code directly in extended mode — via the call-extended statement and the Server-API — so Golf is also, lowkey, an effective framework for C programming language. two things at once, she contains multitudes 💅

Golf gives you simple statements to do complex common tasks, plus memory safety. but here's the part where we gotta be real with each other: the C code you'd include via the call-extended statement may or may not be memory safe. so once your application is in extended mode (see extended-mode), your application may no longer be memory safe. 🫠 no cap, that's just how it is.

so like… how do you know if your Golf app is memory safe? bestie, just search for the extended-mode statement from the root source directory:

find . -name "*.golf" -print -exec grep -l '^\s*extended-mode' {} \;

If no matches are found, the application is memory safe. periodt. ✨

But wait, there's more 🎀 — for applications that are written in C (for performance, access to hardware or OS features, or for any other reason, no judgement), Golf offers a framework that can offload many tasks from your project, while you write C code where it's needed or necessary.

The benefit?? the part of your application written in Golf (which may be a vast majority of it) offers memory safety, ease of development and maintenance, server facilities, lots of functionality, as well as high performance to begin with. and then your Golf code would call your C code when needed, thus accomplishing the functionality and goals you set out to do. it's giving dream team 🤝

Just as a note of technicality — because we love accuracy in this house — when used in extended mode, Golf is considered a framework and not a library, because Golf code will call your C code (and not the other way around). iykyk. 💜

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• C language
• call-extended
• extended-mode
• web-framework-for-C-programming-language
• See all documentation

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