TinyScheme AlternativesProgramming Languages and other similar apps like TinyScheme

TinyScheme is described as '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' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to TinyScheme for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and iPad apps. The best TinyScheme alternative is JavaScript, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TinyScheme are Lua, Tcl, Wren and Luau.

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  1. JavaScript icon
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    JavaScript (sometimes shortened to JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions, most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but also used in many non-browser environments.

    62 JavaScript alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • AROS
    • Haiku
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  2. Lua icon
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    Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.

    Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based.

    89 Lua alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • Android Wear
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • Playstation
    • MorphOS
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  3. Tcl icon
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    Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a very powerful but easy to learn dynamic programming language, suitable for a very wide range of uses.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  4. Wren icon
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    Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language. Think Smalltalk in a Lua sized package with a dash of Erlang and wrapped up in a familiar, modern syntax.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. 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)

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  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
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    Solid - A minimalist interpreted language, with a clean object model and a tiny VM.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Wyvern is a new programming language designed to help developers be highly productive when writing high-assurance applications. The first major innovation in Wyvern is type-specific languages, a feature that allows programmers to create literals of a given type (e.g.

    53 Wyvern alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  9. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • Cygwin
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  10. Real-Time JavaScript Tool is a portable tool that allows JavaScript codes to be executed in Real-Time!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  11. 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
    • Open Source

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    • BSD
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  12. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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