DESCRIPTION¶
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 Golf Blog for
useful articles and changelog. Licensed under Apache 2 Free Open
Source License. Source code is at https://github.com/golf-lang/golf
(with mirrors on Gitlab, SourceForge and Debian Salsa).
Installation packages and source installs below are for both x86_64 and
aarch64.
INSTALL GOLF PACKAGE (X86_64 AND AARCH64)
Ubuntu Debian Fedora, Redhat, Rocky, Alma,
Centos, Amazon, Mageia OpenSUSE Arch, Manjaro
Raspbian
INSTALL GOLF FROM SOURCE CODE
Debian, Ubuntu, Raspbian Fedora, Redhat, Rocky, Alma,
Centos, Amazon, Mageia OpenSUSE Arch, Manjaro
CURRENT VERSION
Current version is 601.4.41. This release passed 2551 automated
functional tests.
EXAMPLE
Example of Golf code (from SaaS example): (Image
home-example.png not available in man page, see web page documentation)
ARTICLES
Blog articles and examples:
• 2025-06-07 Golf 601.4.41
• 2025-06-07 Golf 601.4.37
• 2025-06-05 Golf 601.4.32 released
• 2025-06-04 Major new release of Golf coming
soon
• 2025-05-19 Golf 600.3.25 released
• 2025-05-17 Golf 600.3.13 released
• 2025-05-13 How to write Web Service API with
Golf
• 2025-05-08 Random numbers in Golf
• 2025-05-03 Working with debug symbols on
Fedora etc.
• 2025-05-03 How to install debug symbols for
Golf package on Debian/Ubuntu
• 2025-05-03 Use case for dnf
distro-sync
• 2025-04-25 Cookies in Golf applications, plus
HAProxy!
• 2025-04-19 Example of auto status checking
with Golf
• 2025-04-14 New status-safety
feature
• 2025-04-11 New upcoming safety
features
• 2025-04-10 How to start, stop or restart Golf
application server
• 2025-04-05 How to build OpenSUSE zypper
package for Golf
• 2025-04-02 Fragmentation of Linux and impact
on packaging
• 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
• 2025-02-24 Make RPM package on Fedora and
RedHat
• 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
• 2025-05-14 Golf 534 released
• 2025-05-06 Golf 520 released
• 2025-05-02 Golf 517 released
• 2025-04-29 Golf 501 released
• 2025-04-24 Golf 488 released
• 2025-04-23 Golf 465 released
• 2025-04-20 Golf 452 released
• 2025-04-18 Golf 423 released
• 2025-04-17 Golf 419 released
• 2025-04-14 Golf 397 released
• 2025-03-31 Golf 373 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
Contact email team@golf-lang.com
