Swift (programming language) Alternatives

Swift (programming language) is described as 'Open-source programming language for modern Apple platform apps, offering safe syntax, type inference, generics, compilation to native code, and integration with Objective-C' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Swift (programming language) for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Swift (programming language) alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Swift (programming language) are JavaScript, Java, Rust and C++.

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  1. 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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. Wren icon
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    Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language. Think Smalltalk in a Lua sized package with a dash of Erlang and wrapped up in a familiar, modern syntax.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Wolfram Language is a symbolic language, deliberately designed with the breadth and unity needed to develop powerful programs quickly. By integrating high-level forms—like Image, GeoPolygon or Molecule—along with advanced superfunctions—such as ImageIdentify or...

    120 Wolfram Language alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • openSUSE
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenSolaris
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  4. Beef is an open source performance-oriented compiled programming language which has been built hand-in-hand with its IDE environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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.

    79 Tcl alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. Object Pascal is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented, component-based general purpose programming language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • BSD
    • AROS
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • MorphOS
     
  7. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. 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.

    64 FreeBASIC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. What is ShipAppFast? The Swift boilerplate with all the stuff you need to get your app in front of customers. From idea to production in 5 minutes.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  12. 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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
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