Golf as a web framework for C programming language
Golf source code translates to C before compilation; as a result, Golf offers the ability to include C code directly in extended mode (via call-extended statement and Server-API) which means Golf is also an effective framework for C programming language.
Golf offers simple statements to perform complex common tasks, as well as memory safety. The C code that you'd include via call-extended statement may or may not be memory safe; thus once your application is in extended mode (see extended-mode), your application may no longer be memory safe.
To make sure a Golf application is memory safe, simply search for extended-mode statement from the root source directory:
If no matches are found, the application is memory safe.
However, for applications that are written in C (for performance, access to hardware or OS features, or for any other reason), 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 is that 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 and lots of functionality. Your Golf code would call your C code when needed, thus accomplishing the functionality and goals you set out to do.
Just as a note of technicality, 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).
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