Clojure Alternatives

Clojure is described as 'Dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine (and the CLR ). It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Clojure for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Clojure alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Clojure are JavaScript, Java, Rust and C++.

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  1. Apache Groovy icon
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    Groovy is an agile and dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

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  2. Temper is a programming language and toolchain for making libraries that can be used natively from any other language.

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  3. 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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  4. Objective-C icon
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    The Objective-C language is a simple computer language designed to enable sophisticated object-oriented programming. Objective-C is defined as a small but powerful set of extensions to the standard ANSI C language.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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  5. OCaml icon
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    OCaml is an industrial strength programming language supporting functional, imperative and object-oriented styles.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  6. 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.

    79 Tcl alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  7. Hy icon
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    Hy is a wonderful dialect of Lisp that’s embedded in Python.

    Since Hy transforms its Lisp code into the Python Abstract Syntax Tree, you have the whole beautiful world of Python at your fingertips, in Lisp form!.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  8. 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
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    • Python
     
  9. 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.

    64 FreeBASIC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. ReScript icon
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    ReScript is a robustly typed language that compiles to efficient and human-readable JavaScript. It comes with a lightning fast compiler toolchain that scales to any codebase size.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • JavaScript
    • Self-Hosted
    • Node.JS
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    • BSD
    • Visual Studio Code
     
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