Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- JavaScript
- Hotspot JVM


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++, Go (Programming Language) and Lua.


Cobra is a high-performance, rapid-development programming language. It combines features from Python, C#, Objective-C, Eiffel and other languages in order to boost developer productivity.
Cobra is open source under the MIT license.
I want a language for writing applications that is more expressive than Go but less complex than Rust.

Pluto is a superset of Lua 5.4 designed for general-purpose programming. While being remarkably compatible with Lua 5.4 source-code & bytecode, it enhances the standard library & adds more than a dozen highly-desired syntaxes such as switch statements, compound...

The Ring is a practical general-purpose multi-paradigm language. Ring can be used to create Console, GUI, Web, Games and Mobile applications. The language is designed to be simple, small and flexible.


The Factor programming language combines powerful language features with a full-featured library. The implementation is fully compiled for performance, while still supporting interactive development. Factor applications are portable between all common platforms.
J is a high-level, general-purpose programming language that is particularly suited to the mathematical, statistical, and logical analysis of data. It is a powerful tool for developing algorithms and exploring problems that are not already well understood.

PureScript was initially designed by Phil Freeman in 2013. He started to work on PureScript since he wasn't satisfied by other attempts to transpile Haskell to JavaScript (e.g. using Fay, Haste, or GHCJS).
Polyglot programming language that embeds 12 languages in one file with built-in LLM governance.

It's an alternative to Lua, not C.