Golo - Programming language

Golo is an open source programming language created in 2012 by Webmaster.

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46Repos

Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/eclipse-archived/golo-lang

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Golo is computer software, a programming language for the Java virtual machine (JVM). It is simple, with dynamic, weak typing. It was created in 2012 as part of the research activities of the DynaMid group of the Centre of Innovation in Telecommunications and Integration of service (CITI) Laboratory at Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon (INSA). Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
Golo is developed on GitHub and has 475 stars
There are at least 46 Golo repos on GitHub
Early development of Golo happened in https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/golo-dev
Golo is written in Java, AsciiDoc, Markdown, Bourne shell, YAML, CSS, Gradle, Ruby, Dockerfile, Tex, HTML, JavaScript
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 23 users using Golo in 29 repos on GitHub
Explore Golo snippets on Rosetta Code
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Golo
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Golo
golo-lang.org was registered in 2012
See also: (2 related languages) JVM, Java

Example from hello-world:

module hello.world

function main = |args| {
  println("Hello World")
}

Example from Linguist:

# Copyright 2012-2014 Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA-Lyon)
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.

module hello.World

function main = |args| {
  println("Hello world!")
}

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Integers	✓	# -?\d[\d_]*
Floats	✓	# -?[\d_]\.[\d_]([eE][+-]?\d[\d_]*)?F?
Hexadecimals	✓	# 0[xX][a-fA-F0-9]+
Octals	✓	# 0[0-7]+j?
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		println
Comments	✓	# A comment
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Semantic Indentation	X