ligo/gitlab-pages/website/versioned_docs/version-next/contributors/origin.md

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LIGO is a programming language that aims to provide developers with an uncomplicated and safe way to implement smart-contracts. Since it is being implemented for the Tezos blockchain LIGO compiles to Michelson—the native smart-contract language of Tezos.

Smart-contracts are programs that run within a blockchain network.

LIGO was meant to be a language for developing Marigold on top of a hacky framework called Meta-Michelson. However, due to the attention received by the Tezos community, LIGO is now a standalone language being developed to support Tezos directly.