Factor Alternatives

Factor is described as 'The Factor programming language combines powerful language features with a full-featured library. The implementation is fully compiled for performance, while still supporting interactive development. Factor applications are portable between all common platforms' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Factor for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Factor alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Factor are Java, C (programming language), C++ and Lua.

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  1. Reinteract icon
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    Reinteract is a system for interactive experimentation with Python. Reinteract worksheets contain Python code combined with the results of that code, formatted as text or graphical plots. Youu can go back and edit previously entered statements, and the results will update.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Quorum icon
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    Quorum is a general purpose tool that we call an "evidence-based" programming language. It started as an interpreted language originally designed to be easier to hear through screen readers for blind or visually impaired users.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Om icon
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    The Om language is a novel, maximally-simple concatenative, homoiconic programming and algorithm notation language

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenSolaris
    • OpenBSD
     
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    Kitten is a statically typed, stack-based functional programming language designed to be simple and fast. It is a concatenative language, combining aspects of imperative and pure functional programming.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Ponyc 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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Linux Mint
    • Ubuntu
    • FreeBSD
    • Alpine Linux
     
  7. J icon
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    J is a high-level, general-purpose programming language that is particularly suited to the mathematical, statistical, and logical analysis of data. It is a powerful tool for developing algorithms and exploring problems that are not already well understood.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Web Browser
    • Raspberry Pi
     
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    PureScript was initially designed by Phil Freeman in 2013. He started to work on PureScript since he wasn't satisfied by other attempts to transpile Haskell to JavaScript (e.g. using Fay, Haste, or GHCJS).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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    Smalltalk is an object-oriented programming (OOP) language. It is objects all the way down. Smalltalk’s purity and clarity in this regard made it the archetype for nearly all other OOP languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
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