C (programming language) Alternatives

One of the most popular alternatives to C (programming language) is Java, which is open source and free for personal use. Other popular alternatives are Rust, C++, Lua and Go (Programming Language). Programming Languages like C (programming language) are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. 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.

    25 Fortran alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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  2. Jython icon
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    Jython, successor of JPython, is an implementation of the Python programming language written in Java.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
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  3. Yon icon
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    Yon is an experimental, topos-oriented programming language: a compiled language whose semantics are drawn from category theory (elementary topoi, Heyting algebras, directed type theory) and whose runtime stores every value in a content-addressed heap built on the Leech lattice ?

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    • Mac
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    • Windows
    • BSD
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  4. Forth icon
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    An awesome stack based programming language, which is able to extend itself during runtime.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. L2 is a programming language that attempts to turn as much of C's preprocessor directives, control structures, statements, literals, and functions requiring compiler assistance into things definable inside L2.

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    • Linux
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  6. 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...

    56 Eiffel (programming language) alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenSolaris
    • OpenBSD
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  7. Luau icon
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    Luau (lowercase u, /'lu.a?/) is a fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua.

    79 Luau alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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  8. 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
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  9. P icon
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    P is a programming language for asynchronous event-driven programming and the IoT that was developed by Microsoft and University of California, Berkeley.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Ubuntu
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  10. P is a programming language where the system is described as a collection of interacting state machines communicating with each other through events.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. 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
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