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 Self-Hosted 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. 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
     
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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
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
     
  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • JavaScript
    • Self-Hosted
    • Node.JS
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
    • Visual Studio Code
     
  4. Ada icon
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    Ada 2012 is the next generation of the world’s premier programming language for engineering safe, secure and reliable software.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. 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
     
  6. Bosque icon
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    The Bosque programming language is an experiment in regularized design for a machine assisted rapid and reliable software development lifecycle.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • BSD
     
  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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. 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
     
  9. 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
     
  10. IronPython icon
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    IronPython is an implementation of the Python programming language running under .NET and Silverlight. It supports an interactive console with fully dynamic compilation. It's well integrated with the rest of the .NET Framework and makes all .

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
  11. Pike is a dynamic programming language with a syntax similar to Java and C. It is simple to learn, does not require long compilation passes and has powerful built-in data types allowing simple and really fast data manipulation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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