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. Neko icon
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    Neko is an high-level dynamicly typed programming language. It can be used as an embedded scripting language. It has been designed to provide a common runtime for several different languages. Learning and using Neko is very easy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. 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...

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Vely icon
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    Vely is a general-purpose framework for C programming language, especially well suited for web applications. It's Free Open Source software. C programmers can develop applications they couldn't easily before, with ease, ergonomics and productivity you expect.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. 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)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. 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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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenSolaris
    • OpenBSD
     
  6. Kaffeine JS icon
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    Kaffeine is a set of extensions to the Javascript syntax that attempt to make it nicer to use. It compiles directly into javascript that is very similar, readable and line for line equivalent to the input (you can beautify if you like).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Arturo icon
     1 like

    Simple, expressive & portable programming language for efficient scripting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. LiveScript icon
     11 likes

    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Ceylon icon
     9 likes

    Ceylon is a language designed specifically for writing large programs in teams.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Hotspot JVM
     
  10. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11.  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
     
  12. MicroPython icon
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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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