Ruby Alternatives

Ruby is described as 'Dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was initially developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto' and is a very popular programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Ruby for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Ruby alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ruby are JavaScript, Java, PHP and C++.

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  1. 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.

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
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  2. 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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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    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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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
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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.

    58 Squirrel (programming language) alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
  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.

    77 Tcl alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • BSD
     
  6. 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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. 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.

    62 FreeBASIC alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Guile icon
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    Guile is the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions, the official extension language for the GNU operating system. It's an implementation of the Scheme programming language, supporting the Revised5 and most of the Revised6 language reports, as well as many SRFIs.

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    • Free
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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
  9. MicroPython icon
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    MicroPython aims to implement the Python 3.4 standard (with selected features from later versions) with respect to language syntax, and most of the features of MicroPython are identical to those described by the “Language Reference” documentation at docs.python.org.

    64 MicroPython alternatives

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    • Free
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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  10. 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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • JavaScript
    • Self-Hosted
    • Node.JS
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
    • Visual Studio Code
     
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