C (programming language) Alternatives

C (programming language) is described as 'C is a general-purpose programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie and remains very widely used and influential. By design, C's features cleanly reflect the capabilities of the targeted CPUs' and is a very popular programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to C (programming language) for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Web-based apps. The best C (programming language) alternative is Rust, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like C (programming language) are Java, C++, Lua and Go (Programming Language).

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Alternatives
Get a badge for your siteC (programming language) alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. Fortran icon
     3 likes

    Fortran (previously FORTRAN, derived from Formula Translating System) is a general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.

    25 Fortran alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    Good alternative?
     
  2. Jython icon
     19 likes

    Jython, successor of JPython, is an implementation of the Python programming language written in Java.

    55 Jython alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    Good alternative?
     
  3. Yon icon
     1 like

    Yon is an experimental, topos-oriented programming language: a compiled language whose semantics are drawn from category theory (elementary topoi, Heyting algebras, directed type theory) and whose runtime stores every value in a content-addressed heap built on the Leech lattice ?

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
    Good alternative?
     
  4. Forth icon
     Like

    An awesome stack based programming language, which is able to extend itself during runtime.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
  5. L2 is a programming language that attempts to turn as much of C's preprocessor directives, control structures, statements, literals, and functions requiring compiler assistance into things definable inside L2.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
  6. Eiffel is an object-oriented programming language designed by Bertrand Meyer (an object-orientation proponent and author of Object-Oriented Software Construction) and Eiffel Software. Meyer conceived the language in 1985 with the goal of increasing the reliability of commercial...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenSolaris
    • OpenBSD
    Good alternative?
     
  7. Luau icon
     3 likes

    Luau (lowercase u, /'lu.a?/) is a fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • US flagUnited States
    Luau Icon
    Good alternative?
     
    |
    1
  8. Mussel icon
     1 like

    Mussel is an interpreted programming language written in Rust. It was designed as a simple and flexible language with a focus on easy-to-read syntax and powerful expression evaluation. Mussel supports basic data types, variable bindings, functions, closures, control flow...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Rust
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Good alternative?
     
  9. P icon
     1 like

    P is a programming language for asynchronous event-driven programming and the IoT that was developed by Microsoft and University of California, Berkeley.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Ubuntu
    Good alternative?
     
  10. P is a programming language where the system is described as a collection of interacting state machines communicating with each other through events.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
  11. ooc icon
     1 like

    ooc was born out of the desire to write cross-platform applications with a concise, yet clear syntax, and to produce native binaries rather than relying on a downloadable runtime.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
You are at page 4 of C (programming language) alternatives