Raku unifies many great ideas that aren't usually found in other programming languages. While several other languages offer some of these features, none of them offer all.
Python Alternatives
Python is described as 'Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language. It provides an extraordinary combination of clarity and versatility, and is free and comprehensively ported' and is a leading programming language in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Python for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Python alternative is Java. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Java or Ruby. Other great apps like Python are PHP, R (programming language), Lua and Rust.
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Quorum is a general purpose tool that we call an "evidence-based" programming language. It started as an interpreted language originally designed to be easier to hear through screen readers for blind or visually impaired users.
Temper is a programming language and toolchain for making libraries that can be used natively from any other language.
Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a very powerful but easy to learn dynamic programming language, suitable for a very wide range of uses.
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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- Linux
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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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
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- BSD
- Self-Hosted
6 io (Programming Language) alternativesIo is a prototype-based programming language inspired by Smalltalk (all values are objects, all messages are dynamic), Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential inheritance), Act1 (actors and futures for concurrency), LISP (code is a runtime inspectable/modifiable tree)...
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Raspberry Pi
The Bosque programming language is an experiment in regularized design for a machine assisted rapid and reliable software development lifecycle.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- BSD
Ada 2012 is the next generation of the world’s premier programming language for engineering safe, secure and reliable software.
Pyret is a programming language designed to serve as an outstanding choice for programming education while exploring the confluence of scripting and functional programming. It's under active design and development, and free to use or modify.
Pike is a dynamic programming language with a syntax similar to Java and C. It is simple to learn, does not require long compilation passes and has powerful built-in data types allowing simple and really fast data manipulation.
Umka is a statically typed embeddable scripting language. It combines simplicity and flexibility with compile-time type checking, following the principle Explicit is better than implicit.
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