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- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Lua Alternatives
Lua is described as 'Powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language' and is a very popular programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Lua for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Lua alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Lua are JavaScript, PHP, C (programming language) and C#.
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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
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Global
MicroPython aims to implement the Python 3.4 standard (with selected features from later versions) with respect to language syntax, and most of the features of MicroPython are identical to those described by the “Language Reference” documentation at docs.python.org.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- BSD
- Self-Hosted
- JavaScript
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
Australia
HolyC is very similar to regular C, so it's a very simple but powerful language. It was used to make all of TempleOS, so it definitely works to make programs.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)
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- Linux
- Self-Hosted
United States
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
- United States
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
- United States
Beef is an open source performance-oriented compiled programming language which has been built hand-in-hand with its IDE environment.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- United States
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- United States
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Rust
119 Wolfram Language alternativesWolfram Language is a symbolic language, deliberately designed with the breadth and unity needed to develop powerful programs quickly. By integrating high-level forms—like Image, GeoPolygon or Molecule—along with advanced superfunctions—such as ImageIdentify or...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary (MIT)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- BSD
- openSUSE
- FreeBSD
- OpenSolaris
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
Janet is a functional and imperative programming language. It runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, and should run on other systems with some porting. The entire language (core library, interpreter, compiler, assembler) is about 200-300 kB and should run on many constrained systems.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
- Linux
- Visual Studio Code
- United States
