Objective-C Alternatives

Objective-C is described as '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' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Objective-C for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Objective-C alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Objective-C are JavaScript, Java, C (programming language) and C++.

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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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • 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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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    sdlBasic is a small, efficient and multiplatform basic interpreter aimed to game creation using the power of SDL library, it was inspired by the old and glorious AMOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    Mobile App Development Platform for non-developers: create native apps; send to devices or submit to app stores; manage apps from a secure CMS.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • MobileSmith is the most popular commercial alternative to Objective-C.

    • MobileSmith is Paid and ProprietaryObjective-C is Free and Open Source
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    Nu is an interpreted object-oriented programming language, with a Lisp-like syntax, it was created as an alternative scripting language to program Mac OS X through its Cocoa API.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
     
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    Eiffel is an object-oriented programming language designed by Bertrand Meyer (an object-orientation proponent and author of Object-Oriented Software Construction) and Eiffel Software. Meyer conceived the language in 1985 with the goal of increasing the reliability of commercial...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenSolaris
    • OpenBSD
     
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    Pony is an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    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
     
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    A community fork of a language named after a plant fungus. All of the memory-safe features you love, now with 100% less bureaucracy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
     
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