Racket Alternatives

Racket is described as 'General-purpose programming language as well as the world’s first ecosystem for language-oriented programming' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Racket for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Racket alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Racket are JavaScript, Lua, C# and Go (Programming Language).

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  1. Allegro CL is the most powerful dynamic object-oriented development system available today, and is especially suited to enterprise-wide, complex application development. Complex applications with billions of objects are now made easy with Allegro CL 9.0.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    UCBLogo (also known as Berkeley Logo) is a free implementation of the Logo programming language that supports lists, files, I/O, and recursion. It can be used to teach computer science.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  4. Where jank differs from Clojure JVM is that its host is C++ on top of an LLVM-based JIT. This allows jank to offer the same benefits of REPL-based development while being able to seamlessly reach into the native world and compete seriously with JVM's performance.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  5. 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).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  6. Pluto icon
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    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)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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