J Alternatives

J is described as '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' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to J for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best J alternative is Java. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Java or C (programming language). Other great apps like J are C++, Lua, C# and Go (Programming Language).

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  1. Odin icon
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    The Odin programming language is fast, concise, readable, pragmatic and open sourced. It is designed with the intent of replacing C with the following goals:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Zlib)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. Fortran icon
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    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.

    23 Fortran alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  3. Very fast BASIC like programming language for console and gui applications, automate process, automate data exchange, connect to databases, send mails, ftp, rest api, parsing, tokenizing, files, OpenGl, graphics, sound, printing ... much more.

    82 thinBasic Programming Language alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  4. REBOL icon
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    Rebol (historically REBOL) is a cross-platform data exchange language and a multi-paradigm dynamic programming language designed by Carl Sassenrath for network communications and distributed computing. It introduces the concept of dialecting: small, optimized, domain-specific...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Cobra icon
     9 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Ceylon icon
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    Ceylon is a language designed specifically for writing large programs in teams.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Hotspot JVM
     
  7. Jabaco icon
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    Jabaco is a simple programming language with a Visual Basic like syntax. Jabaco enables you to create powerful software for all Java supported operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8.  5 likes

    Solid - A minimalist interpreted language, with a clean object model and a tiny VM.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. The X10 programming language is organized around four basic principles of asynchrony, locality, atomicity, and order that are developed on a type-safe, class-based, object-oriented foundation. This foundation is robust enough to support fine-grained concurrency, Cilk-style...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. sdlBasic icon
     4 likes

    sdlBasic is a small, efficient and multiplatform basic interpreter aimed to game creation using the power of SDL library, it was inspired by the old and glorious AMOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Red is a new programming language, strongly inspired by REBOL.

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
  12. Factor icon
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    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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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