Hy Alternatives

Hy is described as 'Wonderful dialect of Lisp that’s embedded in Python' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Hy for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Haiku apps. The best Hy alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hy are Lua, C#, Ruby and Perl.

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  1. Temper is a programming language and toolchain for making libraries that can be used natively from any other language.

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    Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a very powerful but easy to learn dynamic programming language, suitable for a very wide range of uses.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
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    Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language. Think Smalltalk in a Lua sized package with a dash of Erlang and wrapped up in a familiar, modern syntax.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  4. Jython icon
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    Jython, successor of JPython, is an implementation of the Python programming language written in Java.

    55 Jython alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  6. IronPython icon
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    IronPython is an implementation of the Python programming language running under .NET and Silverlight. It supports an interactive console with fully dynamic compilation. It's well integrated with the rest of the .NET Framework and makes all .

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Python
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  7. Beef is an open source performance-oriented compiled programming language which has been built hand-in-hand with its IDE environment.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  8. M# icon
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    M# is a set of tools for rapid web application development. M# manages 90% of the code through automation and eliminates most human errors. It has been proven to result in better, safer, and more reliable code, at least 4X faster.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • .NET Framework
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
    • SQL Server Management Studio
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  9. Guile icon
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    Guile is the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions, the official extension language for the GNU operating system. It's an implementation of the Scheme programming language, supporting the Revised5 and most of the Revised6 language reports, as well as many SRFIs.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  10.  1 like

    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.

    68 Smalltalk alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
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  11. P icon
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    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)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Ubuntu
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