JavaScript Alternatives

One of the most popular alternatives to JavaScript is Python, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Java, PHP, TypeScript and Lua. You're spoiled for choice with Programming Languages like JavaScript: we list more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. CoffeeScript icon
     76 likes

    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 its heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  2. WebAssembly icon
     9 likes

    WebAssembly or wasm is a new portable, size- and load-time-efficient format suitable for compilation to the web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Safari
    • Firefox
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  3. Racket icon
     21 likes

    Racket is a general-purpose programming language as well as the world’s first ecosystem for language-oriented programming.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. Clojure icon
     31 likes

    Clojure is a 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...

    78 Clojure alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. Elm icon
     6 likes

    Elm aims to make web development more pleasant. Elm is a type-safe, functional reactive language that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Functional-first language for .NET with static typing, succinct and expressive code, advanced pattern matching, object-oriented features, interop with .NET languages, async programming, type providers, cross-platform support, tooling, and immutable data.

    76 F# (programming language) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  7. ReasonML icon
     2 likes

    ReasonML is a new face to OCaml that--when coupled with BuckleScript--makes web development easy, robust, and type-safe. It has a very good Javascript FFI story, and is easy to adopt piece-meal into your existing projects.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8.  2 likes

    JSX is a statically-typed, object-oriented programming language designed to run on browsers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
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  9. Transcrypt icon
     9 likes

    Transcrypt is a tool to precompile a fairly extensive subset of Python into compact, readable Javascript.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
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