Smalltalk Alternatives

Smalltalk is described as 'Object-oriented programming (OOP) language. It is objects all the way down. Smalltalk’s purity and clarity in this regard made it the archetype for nearly all other OOP languages' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Smalltalk for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Smalltalk alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Smalltalk are Java, C (programming language), C++ and Rust.

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  1. Chapel icon
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    Chapel is a programming language designed for productive parallel computing at scale.

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    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Object Pascal is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented, component-based general purpose programming language.

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • BSD
    • AROS
    • Haiku
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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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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  4. 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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    • Free
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    • Windows
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    • BSD
     
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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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  6. IronPython icon
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    IronPython is an implementation of the Python programming language running under .NET and Silverlight. It supports an interactive console with fully dynamic compilation. It's well integrated with the rest of the .NET Framework and makes all .

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
  7. 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
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Nelua icon
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    Nelua is a systems programming language for performance sensitive applications, like real-time applications and game engines. Its syntax and semantics are similar to Lua, but its garbage collection is optional, it provides optional type notations, and it is free from an...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Odin icon
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    The Odin programming language is fast, concise, readable, pragmatic and open sourced. It is designed with the intent of replacing C with the following goals:

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    • Free
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    • Mac
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    • BSD
     
  10. 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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  11. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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