Alternatives to Java for all platforms with any license

Python

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language. It provides an extraordinary combination of clarity and versatility, and is free...

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- Can almost do everything Java can and sometimes a little better. VenHayz • Apr 2017 • 7 agrees and 2 disagrees
JavaScript

JavaScript (sometimes shortened to JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions, most known as the scripting language for Web...

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PHP

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

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C++

C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose, powerful programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it...

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- It's general purpose, native, and powerful. Guest • Mar 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Powerful, object-oriented and very very wide usage and possibilities. Guest • May 2017
- Flexibility: Can programm pretty much everything that can be coded at all. Fast execution times. thomaszoschke • Aug 2017
C#

C# is a multi-paradigm programming language encompassing strong typing, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and...

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- C# and Java are almost identical. Besides the fact they're being lead by different companies, they have almost the entirely same performance profile and same syntax. Guest • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
C (programming language)

C is a general-purpose computer programming language. C is one of the most widely used programming languages of all time.

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- It's very low-level, compared to Java. It's not entirely general purpose like Java. Guest • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- java is a operation oriented language while c and c++ are general purpose languages Guest • Sep 2017 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees
Ruby

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated...

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Go (Programming Language)

Go, also called golang, is a programming language initially developed at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It is a statically-typed...

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Rust

A systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents almost all crashes, and eliminates data races. .

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Haskell

Haskell is an advanced purely-functional programming language. An open-source product of more than twenty years of cutting-edge research, it allows rapid development of...

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Scala

Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language based on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and...

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Dart

Dart (originally called Dash) is a Web programming language developed by Google. It was unveiled at the GOTO conference in Aarhus, 2011 October 10-12. The goal of Dart...

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- Dart has no ability to handle UI at all. Java does desktop too! Guest • Aug 2015 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
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D (Programming Language)

D is a language with C-like syntax and static typing. It pragmatically combines efficiency, control, and modeling power, with safety and programmer productivity. ...

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Apple Swift

Swift is a programming language for iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS apps that builds on the best of C and Objective-C, without the constraints of C compatibility. Swift...

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Julia

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing...

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