If you’re new to golf.js (and right now everyone is new), you’re probably wondering what’s going on here. If you’re not familiar with the concept of code golf, you should check out codegolf.com. After writing PHP code there, and JavaScript code for my day job, I started to think about combining the two. And that’s pretty much where golf.js came from.
In retrospect, JavaScript seems like the ideal code golf language. All of the limitations of running server-side code are gone with JavaScript. Because you’re running it on your own computer, it won’t make a difference to me if you test your code 1 time or 100 times. And because the code isn’t running on the command line, the input and output formats can be any kind of variable.
So hopefully this will be fun. If you have any suggestions to make it more fun, please leave them in the comments, or send an email.