Scala Alternatives

Scala is described as 'Modern multi-paradigm programming language based on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way' and is a popular programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Scala for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Scala alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Scala are JavaScript, Java, PHP and Rust.

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

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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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    Wyvern is a new programming language designed to help developers be highly productive when writing high-assurance applications. The first major innovation in Wyvern is type-specific languages, a feature that allows programmers to create literals of a given type (e.g.

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    • Free
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  4. 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
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  5. Objective-C icon
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    The Objective-C language is a simple computer language designed to enable sophisticated object-oriented programming. Objective-C is defined as a small but powerful set of extensions to the standard ANSI C language.

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    • Free
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    • Discontinued

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  6. 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.

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  7. 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.

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  8. 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
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  9. Hack icon
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    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 typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming languages.

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    • Free
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    • Linux
     
  10. Eiffel is an object-oriented programming language designed by Bertrand Meyer (an object-orientation proponent and author of Object-Oriented Software Construction) and Eiffel Software. Meyer conceived the language in 1985 with the goal of increasing the reliability of commercial...

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  11. Red is a new programming language, strongly inspired by REBOL.

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