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. The X10 programming language is organized around four basic principles of asynchrony, locality, atomicity, and order that are developed on a type-safe, class-based, object-oriented foundation. This foundation is robust enough to support fine-grained concurrency, Cilk-style...

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  2. sdlBasic icon
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    sdlBasic is a small, efficient and multiplatform basic interpreter aimed to game creation using the power of SDL library, it was inspired by the old and glorious AMOS.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  3. Arturo icon
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    Simple, expressive & portable programming language for efficient scripting.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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  4. Chibi Scheme icon
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    Chibi-Scheme is a very small library with no external dependencies intended for use as an extension and scripting language in C programs. In addition to support for lightweight VM-based threads, each VM itself runs in an isolated heap allowing multiple VMs to run simultaneously...

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    • Free
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    • Discontinued

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  5. Jim is an opensource small-footprint implementation of the Tcl programming language. It implements a large subset of Tcl and adds new features like references with garbage collection, closures, built-in Object Oriented Programming system, Functional Programming commands...

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    • Free
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  6. AngelScript icon
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    The AngelCode Scripting Library, or AngelScript as it is also known, is an extremely flexible cross-platform scripting library designed to allow applications to extend their functionality through external scripts.

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    ChaiScript is an easy to use embedded scripting language for C++.

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  8. TinyScheme icon
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    TinyScheme is a lightweight Scheme interpreter that implements as large a subset of R5RS as was possible without getting very large and complicated. It is meant to be used as an embedded scripting interpreter for other programs.

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    • Free
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  9. NAAb icon
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    Polyglot programming language that embeds 12 languages in one file with built-in LLM governance.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Q# (pronounced as Q sharp) is a domain-specific programming language used for expressing quantum algorithms. It was initially released to the public by Microsoft as part of the Quantum Development Kit.

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    • Open Source (MIT)

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  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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