Golo (programming language)

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p>It has been built as a showcase on how to build a language runtime with invokedynamic. Golo is largely interoperable with the programming language <a href="/facts/Java_(programming_language)/9ScgFyAL">Java</a> and other <a href="/facts/List_of_JVM_languages/IJ3vI5eN">JVM languages</a> (e.g., numeric types are boxing classes from java.lang, and collection literals leverage java.util classes), that runs on the JVM.
</p><p>In June 2015, Golo became an official <a href="/facts/Eclipse_Foundation/dq96nh6j">Eclipse Foundation</a> project. The project was terminated in September 2022.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a>
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<h2 id="technical-details">Technical details</h2>
<p>The language features have been initially designed around the abilities of invokedynamic – JSR 292 that appeared in Java SE 7. Golo uses <a href="/facts/Ahead-of-time_compilation/RmP02P47">ahead-of-time compilation</a> of <a href="/facts/Bytecode/EPkMFR7M">bytecode</a>. While the bytecode remains stable over a program execution, the invokedynamic-based reconfigurable call sites support the adaptive dispatch mechanisms put in place for helping the <a href="/facts/HotSpot_(virtual_machine)/m6vjRXvm">HotSpot</a> <a href="/facts/Just-in-time_compilation/rEYDsd8l">just-in-time compiler</a> (JIT) to extract reasonable performance.
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<h2 id="publications">Publications</h2>
<ul><li>Baptiste Maingret, Frédéric Le Mouël, Julien Ponge, Nicolas Stouls, Jian Cia and Yannick Loiseau. Towards a Decoupled Context-Oriented Programming Language for the Internet of Things. To appear in the <a href="http://2015.ecoop.org/track/COP-2015-papers">7th International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming</a> hosted at ECOOP 2015. Prague, Czech Republic. July 2015.</li>
<li>Julien Ponge, Frédéric Le Mouël, Nicolas Stouls, Yannick Loiseau. Opportunities for a Truffle-based Golo Interpreter. Technical report <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06003">arXiv:1505.06003 (cs.PL)</a> and <a href="https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01151626">HAL-INRIA deposit</a></li>
<li>Julien Ponge, Frédéric Le Mouël and Nicolas Stouls. Golo, a Dynamic, Light and Efficient Language for Post-Invokedynamic JVM. In Procs. of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150624024800/http://pppj2013.dhbw.de/conference-pppj2013.html">PPPJ'13</a>. Stuttgart, Germany. September 2013. <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2500828.2500844">DOI link</a>. <a href="http://hal.inria.fr/hal-00848514">HAL-INRIA deposit</a>. <a href="https://speakerdeck.com/jponge/golo-a-dynamic-light-and-efficient-language-for-post-invokedynamic-jvm">Slides</a>.</li></ul>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
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<li>Free and open-source software portal</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_JVM_languages/IJ3vI5eN">List of JVM languages</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150703100856/https://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/golo_a_lightweight_dynamic_language">"Golo – A Lightweight Dynamic Language for the JVM"</a>. Archived from <a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/golo_a_lightweight_dynamic_language">the original</a> on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.</li>
<li><a href="https://jax.de/awards2014/nominees">"Golo nominated for JAX Awards 2014"</a>. Retrieved 2 July 2015.</li>
<li><a href="https://jax.de/awards2014/golo-programming-language">"Golo entry at JAX Awards 2014"</a>. Retrieved 2 July 2015.</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150704035255/https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2013-05-13.html">"Golo mentioned at the Netbeans Weekly News Issue 587"</a>. Archived from <a href="https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2013-05-13.html">the original</a> on 2015-07-04. Retrieved 2 July 2015.]</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://golo-lang.org">Official website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/golo-lang/">Golo at GitHub repository</a></li>
<li><a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/golo">Golo incubation page at Eclipse.org</a></li>
<li><a href="http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/gldt">Eclipse integration for Golo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/golo-lang/golo-netbeans">Netbeans module to support Golo</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Termination Review". projects.eclipse.org. 29 August 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022. <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.golo/reviews/termination-review" target="_blank">https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.golo/reviews/termination-review</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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