PHP Alternatives

PHP is described as 'Server-side scripting language designed for web development, featuring HTML embedment and extensive community support, suitable for dynamic content creation' and is a very popular programming language in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to PHP for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best PHP alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PHP are JavaScript, Java, Lua and Ruby.

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  1. Hack icon
     13 likes

    Hack is a 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.

    50 Hack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  2. Erlang icon
     33 likes

    Concurrent functional language with built-in support for fault tolerance, distribution, and hot swapping, designed for scalable real-time systems in telecom, banking, e-commerce, and instant messaging. Features garbage collection and dynamic typing.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  3. 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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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
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  4. Mojo icon
     5 likes

    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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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • US flagUnited States
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  5. Tcl icon
     21 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  6. Raku icon
     7 likes

    Raku unifies many great ideas that aren't usually found in other programming languages. While several other languages offer some of these features, none of them offer all.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  7. 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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  8. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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  9. Bosque icon
     3 likes

    The Bosque programming language is an experiment in regularized design for a machine assisted rapid and reliable software development lifecycle.

    53 Bosque alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • BSD
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  10. Luau icon
     3 likes

    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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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • US flagUnited States
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  11. Lasso is an easy and secure platform for custom, data-driven sites. It bridges web servers (Apache, IIS) with numerous data sources (MySQL, Oracle, etc.). Because it embraces open standards, you can develop on macOS, Windows, or Linux and deploy on another seamlessly.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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