Perl Alternatives

Perl is described as 'High-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language with over 22 years of development' and is a very popular programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Perl for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Perl alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Perl are JavaScript, Node.js, C (programming language) and PHP.

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  1. ReScript icon
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    ReScript is a robustly typed language that compiles to efficient and human-readable JavaScript. It comes with a lightning fast compiler toolchain that scales to any codebase size.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • JavaScript
    • Self-Hosted
    • Node.JS
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
    • Visual Studio Code
     
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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
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Nelua icon
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    Nelua is a systems programming language for performance sensitive applications, like real-time applications and game engines. Its syntax and semantics are similar to Lua, but its garbage collection is optional, it provides optional type notations, and it is free from an...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Text processing tool with a powerful and easy to learn language.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Procedural Text Edit is the most popular commercial alternative to Perl.

    • Procedural Text Edit is Paid and ProprietaryPerl is Free and Open Source
  6. M# icon
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    M# is a set of tools for rapid web application development. M# manages 90% of the code through automation and eliminates most human errors. It has been proven to result in better, safer, and more reliable code, at least 4X faster.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • .NET Framework
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
    • SQL Server Management Studio
     
  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. J icon
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    J is a high-level, general-purpose programming language that is particularly suited to the mathematical, statistical, and logical analysis of data. It is a powerful tool for developing algorithms and exploring problems that are not already well understood.

    53 J alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Web Browser
    • Raspberry Pi
     
  9. Ponyc icon
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    Pony is an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Linux Mint
    • Ubuntu
    • FreeBSD
    • Alpine Linux
     
  10. Vala icon
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    Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Object Pascal is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented, component-based general purpose programming language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • BSD
    • AROS
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • MorphOS
     
  12. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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