Squirrel (programming language) Alternatives

Squirrel (programming language) is described as 'Squirrel is a high level imperative, object-oriented programming language, designed to be a light-weight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like video games' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Squirrel (programming language) for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Squirrel (programming language) alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Squirrel (programming language) are C (programming language), C++, Lua and C#.

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  1. HolyC icon
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    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.

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  2. Wolfram 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...

    119 Wolfram Language alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary (MIT)

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    • Online
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  3. Luau icon
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    Luau (lowercase u, /'lu.a?/) is a fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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  4. Umka icon
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    Umka is a statically typed embeddable scripting language. It combines simplicity and flexibility with compile-time type checking, following the principle Explicit is better than implicit.

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  5. FreeBASIC icon
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    FreeBASIC is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with syntax similar to MS-QuickBASIC, that adds new features such as pointers, unsigned data types, inline assembly, object orientation, and many others.

    66 FreeBASIC alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  6. Chapel icon
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    Chapel is a programming language designed for productive parallel computing at scale.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
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  7. Object Pascal is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented, component-based general purpose programming language.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Android
    • iPhone
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    • AROS
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • MorphOS
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  8. jRuby icon
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    JRuby is a 100% Java implementation of the Ruby programming language running on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  9. 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
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  10. Nelua icon
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    Nelua is a systems programming language for performance sensitive applications, like real-time applications and game engines. Its syntax and semantics are similar to Lua, but its garbage collection is optional, it provides optional type notations, and it is free from an...

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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