Snarf is simple, typeless and uses prototype-style and single inheritance object oriented language. It is not blazingly fast and depends on the system’s hash table implementation quality for speed.

Snarf contains no classes, only objects, which are simply collections (dictionary) of key-value (<name, value> pairs called SLOTs) pairs. These can have names that are considered symbols; the "value" can be anything. These objects may have parents and inherit key-value pairs in single inheritance fashion. The "value" can contain a special function called a "method", which is similar to how Python, JavaScript, SELF and NewtonScript handle things.