Tcl Alternatives

Tcl is described as '(Tool Command Language) is a very powerful but easy to learn dynamic programming language, suitable for a very wide range of uses' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Tcl for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Tcl alternative is Python, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Tcl are Java, C (programming language), PHP and C++.

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  1. Apache Groovy icon
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    Groovy is an agile and dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

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

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  3. 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
    • Open Source

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  4. 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
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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  5. 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...

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    • Free
    • Proprietary (MIT)

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    • Online
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  6. 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!.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  7. 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.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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  8. HolyC icon
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    HolyC is very similar to regular C, so it's a very simple but powerful language. It was used to make all of TempleOS, so it definitely works to make programs.

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  9. Jython icon
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    Jython, successor of JPython, is an implementation of the Python programming language written in Java.

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    • Free
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    • Python
     
  10. 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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  11. 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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    • Free
    • Open Source

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