Racket Alternatives

Racket is described as 'General-purpose programming language as well as the world’s first ecosystem for language-oriented programming' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Racket for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Racket alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Racket are JavaScript, Lua, C# and Go (Programming Language).

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  1. Elixir icon
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    Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • DragonFly BSD
     
  2. Clojure icon
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    Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine (and the CLR ). It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    it is also a Lisp unlike other mentioned alternatives

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    • Clojure is Free and Open SourceRacket is also Free and Open Source
  3. Hy icon
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    Hy is a wonderful dialect of Lisp that’s embedded in Python.

    Since Hy transforms its Lisp code into the Python Abstract Syntax Tree, you have the whole beautiful world of Python at your fingertips, in Lisp form!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Mojo icon
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    The Mojo Programming Language Mojo is a specialized artificial intelligence (AI) programming language developed by Modular Inc. First released in May 2023, it is designed to become a superset of Python, with the performance of C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  5. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • JavaScript
    • Self-Hosted
    • Node.JS
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
    • Visual Studio Code
     
  6. Bosque icon
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    The Bosque programming language is an experiment in regularized design for a machine assisted rapid and reliable software development lifecycle.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • BSD
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. 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
     
  10. Luau icon
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    Luau (lowercase u, /'lu.a?/) is a fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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