Hack Alternatives

Hack is described as 'Programming language for HHVM that interoperates seamlessly with PHP. Hack reconciles the fast development cycle of PHP with the discipline provided by static typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming languages' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Hack for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Hack alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hack are Java, PHP, Node.js and Lua.

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  1. Haskell icon
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    Haskell is an advanced purely-functional programming language. An open-source product of more than twenty years of cutting-edge research, it allows rapid development of robust, concise, correct software.

    77 Haskell alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2. Elixir icon
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    Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications.

    77 Elixir alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • DragonFly BSD
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  3. Scala icon
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    Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language based on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way.

    77 Scala alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
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  4. D is a language with C-like syntax and static typing. It pragmatically combines efficiency, control, and modeling power, with safety and programmer productivity.

    74 D (Programming Language) alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  5. CoffeeScript icon
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    CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath all those awkward braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.

    28 CoffeeScript alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  6. Haxe icon
     47 likes

    Haxe is an open source toolkit based on a modern high level strictly typed programming language, a state-of-the-art light-speed cross-compiler, a complete cross-platform standard library, and ways to access to each platform's native capabilities.

    81 Haxe alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
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  7. ASP.NET icon
     33 likes

    Asp.net is an open source server-side Web application framework designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages, web sites, apps and services with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You can also create Web APIs, mobile sites, use real-time technologies like Web Sockets and more!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Mojo icon
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    Mojo is a specialized artificial intelligence (AI) programming language developed by Modular Inc. First released in May 2023, it is designed to become a superset of Python, with the performance of C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • US flagUnited States
    Mojo screenshot 1
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  9. Temper is a programming language and toolchain for making libraries that can be used natively from any other language.

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  10. Unison is a statically-typed functional language with type inference, an effect system, and advanced tooling. It is based around a big idea of content-addressed code, in which function are identified by a hash of their implementation rather than by name, and code is stored as...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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