C (programming language) Alternatives

C (programming language) is described as 'C is a general-purpose programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie and remains very widely used and influential. By design, C's features cleanly reflect the capabilities of the targeted CPUs' and is a very popular programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to C (programming language) for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Web-based apps. The best C (programming language) alternative is Rust, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like C (programming language) are Java, C++, Lua and Go (Programming Language).

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  1. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Unison is a statically-typed functional language with type inference, an effect system, and advanced tooling. It is based around a big idea of content-addressed code, in which function are identified by a hash of their implementation rather than by name, and code is stored as...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Pony language icon
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    Pony is an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Object Pascal is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented, component-based general purpose programming language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • BSD
    • AROS
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • MorphOS
     
  5. Beef is an open source performance-oriented compiled programming language which has been built hand-in-hand with its IDE environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. 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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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Ponyc icon
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    Pony is an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Linux Mint
    • Ubuntu
    • FreeBSD
    • Alpine Linux
     
  8. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • openSUSE
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenSolaris
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  9. 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
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
  10. 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.

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
     
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