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Top Alternatives to JavaScript

Looking for JavaScript alternatives? We've curated 17 top alternatives that offer similar functionality. Whether you need options, free plans, or open source solutions, explore our comprehensive list to find the perfect fit for your needs.

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Python

Python

Open Source

Python is a high level programming language.

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PHP

PHP

Open Source

PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) is a programming language that allows web developers to create dynamic content that interacts with databases.

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Ruby

Ruby

Open Source

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, object-oriented, general-purpose programming language.

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Lua

Lua

Open Source

Lua is a powerful and fast programming language that is easy to learn and use and to embed into your application.

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Perl

Perl

Open Source

Perl is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages.

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CoffeeScript

CoffeeScript

Open Source

CoffeeScript is a programming language that transcompiles to JavaScript. It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScripts brevity and readability.

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Dart

Dart

Open Source

Dart is an application programming language that's easy to learn, easy to scale, and deployable everywhere.

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Scala

Scala

Open Source

Scala is a general-purpose programming language providing support for functional programming and a strong static type system.

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Objective-C

Objective-C

Open Source

Objective-C is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language.

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Groovy

Groovy

Open Source

Apache Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-typing and static compilation capabilities, for the Java platform.

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Apple Swift

Apple Swift

Open Source

Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language.

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Clojure

Clojure

Open Source

Clojure is a dialect of the Lisp programming language.

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jRuby

jRuby

Open Source

JRuby is an implementation of the Ruby programming language atop the Java Virtual Machine, written largely in Java. It is free software released under a three-way EPL/GPL/LGPL license.

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Jython

Jython

Open Source

Jython is an implementation of the Python programming language designed to run on the Java platform.

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Kotlin

Kotlin

Open Source

Kotlin is a statically-typed programming language that runs on the Java virtual machine.

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F# (programming language)

F# is a mature, open source, cross-platform, functional-first programming language.

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LiveScript

LiveScript

Open Source

LiveScript is a functional language that compiles to JavaScript.

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