Python Alternatives

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  1. Squirrel is a high level imperative, object-oriented programming language, designed to be a light-weight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like video games.

    63 Squirrel (programming language) alternatives

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  2. FreeBASIC icon
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    FreeBASIC is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with syntax similar to MS-QuickBASIC, that adds new features such as pointers, unsigned data types, inline assembly, object orientation, and many others.

    67 FreeBASIC alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  3. Pony language icon
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    Pony is an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language.

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    • Open Source

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

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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.

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  6. 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...

    57 Unison Programming Language alternatives

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  7. Io 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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    • Raspberry Pi
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  8. 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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    • Open Source (MIT)

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    The Bosque programming language is an experiment in regularized design for a machine assisted rapid and reliable software development lifecycle.

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
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  10. Pyret icon
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    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.

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    • Online
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  11. Ada icon
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    Ada 2012 is the next generation of the world’s premier programming language for engineering safe, secure and reliable software.

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  12. 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.

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    • Open Source

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