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, PHP, C (programming language) and C#.

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  1. 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).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  2. Programming language with no quirks, so simple every child can master it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
     
  3. 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
     
  4. Pluto icon
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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 (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Ponyc icon
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    Pony is an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Linux Mint
    • Ubuntu
    • FreeBSD
    • Alpine Linux
     
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