Luau Alternatives

Luau is described as '(lowercase u, /'lu.a?/) is a fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Luau for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Luau alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Luau are JavaScript, C (programming language), PHP and Lua.

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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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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
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  3. Pyret icon
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    Pyret is a programming language designed to serve as an outstanding choice for programming education while exploring the confluence of scripting and functional programming. It's under active design and development, and free to use or modify.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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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

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
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    Io is a prototype-based programming language inspired by Smalltalk (all values are objects, all messages are dynamic), Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential inheritance), Act1 (actors and futures for concurrency), LISP (code is a runtime inspectable/modifiable tree)...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Raspberry Pi
     
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    Red is a new programming language, strongly inspired by REBOL.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
  7. Factor icon
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    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

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
  8. Quorum icon
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    Quorum is a general purpose tool that we call an "evidence-based" programming language. It started as an interpreted language originally designed to be easier to hear through screen readers for blind or visually impaired users.

    33 Quorum alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  9. Arturo icon
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    Simple, expressive & portable programming language for efficient scripting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Objective-J icon
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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
     
  11. Chibi Scheme icon
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    Chibi-Scheme is a very small library with no external dependencies intended for use as an extension and scripting language in C programs. In addition to support for lightweight VM-based threads, each VM itself runs in an isolated heap allowing multiple VMs to run simultaneously...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
     
  12. 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
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    • Linux
     
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