Rust Alternatives

Rust is described as 'Multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language that emphasizes performance, type safety, and concurrency. It enforces memory safety—meaning that all references point to valid memory—without a garbage collector' and is a very popular programming language in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Rust for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Rust alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Rust are C++, C (programming language), Go (Programming Language) and C#.

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  1. Mussel icon
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    Mussel is an interpreted programming language written in Rust. It was designed as a simple and flexible language with a focus on easy-to-read syntax and powerful expression evaluation. Mussel supports basic data types, variable bindings, functions, closures, control flow...

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    • Rust
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. M# icon
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    M# is a set of tools for rapid web application development. M# manages 90% of the code through automation and eliminates most human errors. It has been proven to result in better, safer, and more reliable code, at least 4X faster.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • .NET Framework
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
    • SQL Server Management Studio
     
  3. Vala icon
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    Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.

    65 Vala alternatives

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    • BSD
     
  4. Pike is a dynamic programming language with a syntax similar to Java and C. It is simple to learn, does not require long compilation passes and has powerful built-in data types allowing simple and really fast data manipulation.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Fortran icon
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    Fortran (previously FORTRAN, derived from Formula Translating System) is a general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.

    23 Fortran alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  6. Ceylon icon
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    Ceylon is a language designed specifically for writing large programs in teams.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Hotspot JVM
     
  7. 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
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenSolaris
    • OpenBSD
     
  8. Cobra icon
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    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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Online
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  10. ooc icon
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    ooc was born out of the desire to write cross-platform applications with a concise, yet clear syntax, and to produce native binaries rather than relying on a downloadable runtime.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. 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.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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