jRuby Alternatives

jRuby is described as 'JRuby is a 100% Java implementation of the Ruby programming language running on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to jRuby for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best jRuby alternative is Java. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Java or JavaScript. Other great apps like jRuby are Ruby, Kotlin, Crystal (programming language) and Apache Groovy.

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    Squirrel is a high level imperative, object-oriented programming language, designed to be a light-weight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like video games.

    58 Squirrel (programming language) alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • FreeBSD
     
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    Very fast BASIC like programming language for console and gui applications, automate process, automate data exchange, connect to databases, send mails, ftp, rest api, parsing, tokenizing, files, OpenGl, graphics, sound, printing ... much more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    Rebol (historically REBOL) is a cross-platform data exchange language and a multi-paradigm dynamic programming language designed by Carl Sassenrath for network communications and distributed computing. It introduces the concept of dialecting: small, optimized, domain-specific...

    62 REBOL alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    Ceylon is a language designed specifically for writing large programs in teams.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Hotspot JVM
     
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    Jabaco is a simple programming language with a Visual Basic like syntax. Jabaco enables you to create powerful software for all Java supported operating systems.

    63 Jabaco alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
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    Solid - A minimalist interpreted language, with a clean object model and a tiny VM.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
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    Wyvern is a new programming language designed to help developers be highly productive when writing high-assurance applications. The first major innovation in Wyvern is type-specific languages, a feature that allows programmers to create literals of a given type (e.g.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    sdlBasic is a small, efficient and multiplatform basic interpreter aimed to game creation using the power of SDL library, it was inspired by the old and glorious AMOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Objective-J is a programming language developed as part of the Cappuccino web development framework. Its syntax is nearly identical to the Objective-C syntax and it shares with JavaScript the same relationship that Objective-C has with...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    Nashorn is a JavaScript engine for Java Virtual Machine. It allows running scripts from Java code as well as from commandline. Java API and classes are also available from inside scripts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Java
     
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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).

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
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