513 Like Java Good alternative? YES NO Java is a general-purpose computer programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation... Free Mac Windows Linux Web Android Java Mobile S60 HP webOS ... Blackberry Android Tablet BSD Blackberry 10 PlayBook Kindle Fire Object-oriented Language Garbage Collection Object-oriented Language Subtasks Add a feature Java is a programming language too but JavaScript was not created by Oracle (the company who creates Java) Guest • Jun 2015 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree
350 Like PHP Good alternative? YES NO PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PHP Scripting language Add a feature Javascript is client sided and can be integrated with PHP, PHP interacts with server and uses server side data and script. Guest • Jun 2015 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree
219 Like Ruby Good alternative? YES NO Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku Object-oriented Language Add a feature
126 Like Lua Good alternative? YES NO Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet BSD iPad ... Android Wear Haiku AmigaOS Playstation MorphOS Scripting Scripting language Add a feature
65 Like CoffeeScript Good alternative? YES NO CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath all those awkward braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web No features added Add a feature
109 Like Perl Good alternative? YES NO Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language with over 22 years of development. The Perl languages borrow features from other... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku No features added Add a feature
57 Like Scala Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Functional Language Object-oriented Language Add a feature
57 Like Dart Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web No features added Add a feature
18 Like Typescript Good alternative? YES NO Now acquired by MICROSOFT. TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted Node.JS Object-oriented Language Add a feature
23 Like Apple Swift Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Linux Object-oriented Language Scripting Scripting language Add a feature
28 Like Objective-C Alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Object-oriented Language Add a feature Discontinued Replaced by http://alternativeto.net/software/swift-programming-language/
11 Like LiveScript Good alternative? YES NO LiveScript is a language which compiles down to JavaScript. It is a fork of Coco which is in turn derived from CoffeeScript. Like those two it has a relatively... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
26 Like Groovy Good alternative? YES NO Groovy is an agile and dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Object-oriented Language Scripting Add a feature
15 Like F# (programming language) Alternative? YES NO F# is a succinct, expressive and efficient functional and object-oriented language for .NET which helps you write simple code to solve complex problems. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Functional Language Object-oriented Language Scripting language Add a feature
21 Like jRuby Good alternative? YES NO JRuby is a 100% Java implementation of the Ruby programming language running on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Object-oriented Language Add a feature
