JavaScript Alternatives

JavaScript is described as '(sometimes shortened to JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions, most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but also used in many non-browser environments' and is a leading programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to JavaScript for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best JavaScript alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like JavaScript are Java, PHP, TypeScript and Ruby.

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    Unfancy CoffeeScript. Coco is a CoffeeScript dialect that aims to be more radical and practical.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Pluto is a superset of Lua 5.4 designed for general-purpose programming. While being remarkably compatible with Lua 5.4 source-code & bytecode, it enhances the standard library & adds more than a dozen highly-desired syntaxes such as switch statements, compound...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Lasso is an easy and secure platform for custom, data-driven sites. It bridges web servers (Apache, IIS) with numerous data sources (MySQL, Oracle, etc.). Because it embraces open standards, you can develop on macOS, Windows, or Linux and deploy on another seamlessly.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. 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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. AngelScript icon
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    The AngelCode Scripting Library, or AngelScript as it is also known, is an extremely flexible cross-platform scripting library designed to allow applications to extend their functionality through external scripts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    This extension allows you to enable deferred JavaScript loading at Magento 2 store. All JS code automatically moved to the bottom of the page (before <body> tag end). This speeds up page load and increases page speed score.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Magento Community Edition
     
  7. Vely icon
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    Vely is a general-purpose framework for C programming language, especially well suited for web applications. It's Free Open Source software. C programmers can develop applications they couldn't easily before, with ease, ergonomics and productivity you expect.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    TinyScheme is a lightweight Scheme interpreter that implements as large a subset of R5RS as was possible without getting very large and complicated. It is meant to be used as an embedded scripting interpreter for other programs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    The core tools for Blade rich client development. Contribute to blade development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Jim is an opensource small-footprint implementation of the Tcl programming language. It implements a large subset of Tcl and adds new features like references with garbage collection, closures, built-in Object Oriented Programming system, Functional Programming commands...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    The X10 programming language is organized around four basic principles of asynchrony, locality, atomicity, and order that are developed on a type-safe, class-based, object-oriented foundation. This foundation is robust enough to support fine-grained concurrency, Cilk-style...

    60 X10 (programming language) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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