Node.js Alternatives

One of the most popular alternatives to Node.js is Deno, which is open source with a free version. Other popular alternatives are Bun, Perl, Nub and vert.x. There's no shortage of Programming Languages like Node.js, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac, self-hosting and the web.

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    asyncoro is a Python framework for developing concurrent, distributed programs with asynchronous completions and coroutines. Asynchronous completions implemented in asyncoro are socket I/O operations (non-blocking sockets), database cursors, sleep timers and locking primitives.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    Historically, software platform vendors have created lock-ins for customers that building on their stacks. Open source has provided greater freedom and reduced investments for applications projects. The so-called Platform As A Service (PaaS) offerings from the cloud providers...

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    • Docker
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    Hack is a programming language for HHVM that interoperates seamlessly with PHP. Hack reconciles the fast development cycle of PHP with the discipline provided by static typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming languages.

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    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    ViUR – the Information System for the Google App Engine™ plattform – is a »sandbox« for designers and developers. With the help of ViUR you can easy build web applications running on Google's infrastructure.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    Runtime TypeScript and ESM support for Node.js.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
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    Ceylon is a language designed specifically for writing large programs in teams.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Hotspot JVM
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    Tokio is an open source library providing an asynchronous, event driven platform for building fast, reliable, and lightweight network applications. It leverages Rust's ownership and concurrency model to ensure thread safety. Tokio is a blazing fast, lightweight and reliable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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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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    • Linux
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  11. Pylons Framework is an open source Web application framework written in Python. It makes extensive use of the Web Server Gateway Interface standard to promote reusability and to separate functionality into distinct modules.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
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  12. Ant JS icon
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    Ant is a lightweight, high-performance JavaScript runtime built from scratch. It runs real npm packages, starts instantly and ships as a portable 9 MB binary.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • JavaScript
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