Kotlin Alternatives

Kotlin is described as 'Cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose programming language with type inference. Kotlin is designed to interoperate fully with Java, and the JVM version of its standard library depends on the Java Class Library, but type inference allows its syntax to be' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Kotlin for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Kotlin alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Kotlin are JavaScript, Java, C# and Lua.

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  1. Objective-C icon
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    The Objective-C language is a simple computer language designed to enable sophisticated object-oriented programming. Objective-C is defined as a small but powerful set of extensions to the standard ANSI C language.

    80 Objective-C alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2. Bosque icon
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    The Bosque programming language is an experiment in regularized design for a machine assisted rapid and reliable software development lifecycle.

    53 Bosque alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • BSD
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  3. Babel icon
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    Babel is a generic multi-purpose compiler for JavaScript. Using Babel you can use (and create) the next generation of JavaScript, as well as the next generation of JavaScript tooling.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Node.JS
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  4.  5 likes

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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    Wyvern is a new programming language designed to help developers be highly productive when writing high-assurance applications. The first major innovation in Wyvern is type-specific languages, a feature that allows programmers to create literals of a given type (e.g.

    53 Wyvern alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  6. ReScript icon
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    ReScript is a robustly typed language that compiles to efficient and human-readable JavaScript. It comes with a lightning fast compiler toolchain that scales to any codebase size.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • JavaScript
    • Self-Hosted
    • Node.JS
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
    • Visual Studio Code
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  7.  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
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    • Android
    • iPhone
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  8. LiveScript icon
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    LiveScript is a language which compiles down to JavaScript. It is a fork of Coco which is in turn derived from CoffeeScript. Like those two it has a relatively straightforward mapping to JavaScript. LiveScript is Coco but much more compatible with CoffeeScript, more functional...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  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).

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    • Free
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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
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  10. 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
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    • Online
    • BSD
    • Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenSolaris
    • OpenBSD
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    Unfancy CoffeeScript. Coco is a CoffeeScript dialect that aims to be more radical and practical.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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