Alternatives to PHP for all platforms with any license

Python

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language. It provides an extraordinary combination of clarity and versatility, and is free...

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Object-oriented Language Dynamic typing Garbage Collection High Level ... Modular System Object-oriented Language Add a feature

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JavaScript

JavaScript (sometimes shortened to JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions, most known as the scripting language for Web...

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Java

Java is a general-purpose computer programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation...

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Object-oriented Language Garbage Collection Object-oriented Language Subtasks ... X86/x64 Compatibility Add a feature

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Ruby

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated...

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Lua

Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on...

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- Can do all that PHP does. Usable for all sorts of software, not just web. Super slim, the opposite of bloatware. Summary: maximum benefit, minimum burden. Guest • Mar 2018
Perl

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language with over 22 years of development. The Perl languages borrow features from other...

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Haskell

Haskell is an advanced purely-functional programming language. An open-source product of more than twenty years of cutting-edge research, it allows rapid development of...

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Scala

Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language based on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and...

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D (Programming Language)

D is a language with C-like syntax and static typing. It pragmatically combines efficiency, control, and modeling power, with safety and programmer productivity. ...

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Contract programming Functional Language High Level Multiparadigm ... Object-oriented Language Add a feature

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Haxe

Haxe is an open source toolkit based on a modern high level strictly typed programming language, a state-of-the-art light-speed cross-compiler, a complete cross-platform...

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Object-oriented Language Pattern matching Add a feature

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ASP.NET

Asp.net is an open source server-side Web application framework designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages, web sites, apps and services with HTML, CSS...

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Tcl

Tcl (originally from "Tool Command Language", but conventionally rendered as "Tcl" rather than "TCL"; pronounced as "tickle" or...

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Scripting Scripting language Add a feature

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Erlang

Erlang is a general-purpose concurrent, garbage-collected programming language and runtime system used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with...

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Distributed Computing Functional Language High Availability Add a feature

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Hack

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...

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Object-oriented Language Scripting Scripting language Add a feature

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LiveScript

LiveScript is a language which compiles down to JavaScript. It is a fork of Coco which is in turn derived from CoffeeScript. Like those two it has a relatively...

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