Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (BSL-1.0)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Lua Alternatives
Apps similar to Lua include Python, which is free and open source. Other options are JavaScript, PHP, C (programming language) and C#. Programming Languages like Lua are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac, the web and self-hosting.
Alternatives list
Hy is a wonderful dialect of Lisp that’s embedded in Python.
Since Hy transforms its Lisp code into the Python Abstract Syntax Tree, you have the whole beautiful world of Python at your fingertips, in Lisp form!.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
The Bosque programming language is an experiment in regularized design for a machine assisted rapid and reliable software development lifecycle.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- BSD
United States
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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
81 Pike programming language alternativesPike is a dynamic programming language with a syntax similar to Java and C. It is simple to learn, does not require long compilation passes and has powerful built-in data types allowing simple and really fast data manipulation.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Sweden
EU
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 of extensions to the standard ANSI C language.
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
57 Unison Programming Language alternativesUnison is a statically-typed functional language with type inference, an effect system, and advanced tooling. It is based around a big idea of content-addressed code, in which function are identified by a hash of their implementation rather than by name, and code is stored as...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Self-Hosted
- Global
Like C/C++, Terra is a statically-typed, compiled language with manual memory management. But unlike C/C++, it is designed from the beginning to be meta-programmed from Lua.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
The Factor programming language combines powerful language features with a full-featured library. The implementation is fully compiled for performance, while still supporting interactive development. Factor applications are portable between all common platforms.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
CI want a language for writing applications that is more expressive than Go but less complex than Rust.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
B
Neko is an high-level dynamicly typed programming language. It can be used as an embedded scripting language. It has been designed to provide a common runtime for several different languages. Learning and using Neko is very easy.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
