Elixir Alternatives

Elixir is described as 'Dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Elixir for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Elixir alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Elixir are JavaScript, Java, Rust and PHP.

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  1. Objective-J icon
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    Objective-J is a programming language developed as part of the Cappuccino web development framework. Its syntax is nearly identical to the Objective-C syntax and it shares with JavaScript the same relationship that Objective-C has with...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  2. A community fork of a language named after a plant fungus. All of the memory-safe features you love, now with 100% less bureaucracy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Q# (pronounced as Q sharp) is a domain-specific programming language used for expressing quantum algorithms. It was initially released to the public by Microsoft as part of the Quantum Development Kit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming. Coconut (coconut-lang.org) is a Python variant that adds new features like prettier lambdas, pattern matching, algebraic data types and more.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Pluto icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. NoPrint.js is a small and neat open source JS library that disables print, screenshot, copy and paste functions in HTML. You can also enable the AutoBlur option to let the content turn to blur once the mouse leaves the webpage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. 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...

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenSolaris
    • OpenBSD
     
  8. Where jank differs from Clojure JVM is that its host is C++ on top of an LLVM-based JIT. This allows jank to offer the same benefits of REPL-based development while being able to seamlessly reach into the native world and compete seriously with JVM's performance.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  9. 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).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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    Smalltalk is an object-oriented programming (OOP) language. It is objects all the way down. Smalltalk’s purity and clarity in this regard made it the archetype for nearly all other OOP languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
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