Objective-C Alternatives

Objective-C has been discontinued. Similar apps include Python, which is free and open source. Other options are JavaScript, Java, C (programming language) and Rust. There's no shortage of Programming Languages like Objective-C, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. Clojure icon
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    Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine (and the CLR ). It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for...

    78 Clojure alternatives

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  2. Mojo icon
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    Mojo is a specialized artificial intelligence (AI) programming language developed by Modular Inc. First released in May 2023, it is designed to become a superset of Python, with the performance of C.

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  3. Temper is a programming language and toolchain for making libraries that can be used natively from any other language.

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  4. Unison 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...

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  5. Tcl icon
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    Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a very powerful but easy to learn dynamic programming language, suitable for a very wide range of uses.

    80 Tcl alternatives

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    • Open Source

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  6. HolyC icon
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    HolyC is very similar to regular C, so it's a very simple but powerful language. It was used to make all of TempleOS, so it definitely works to make programs.

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  7. Wolfram Language is a symbolic language, deliberately designed with the breadth and unity needed to develop powerful programs quickly. By integrating high-level forms—like Image, GeoPolygon or Molecule—along with advanced superfunctions—such as ImageIdentify or...

    119 Wolfram Language alternatives

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    • Proprietary (MIT)

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    • Online
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  8. Jython icon
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    Jython, successor of JPython, is an implementation of the Python programming language written in Java.

    55 Jython alternatives

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  9. Luau icon
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    Luau (lowercase u, /'lu.a?/) is a fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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