What is the best alternative to Assembly?

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score 125 · Answer 1

Pascal / Object Pascal

Standard:ISO/IEC 7185:1990 Pascal and ISO/IEC 10206:1990 Extended Pascal

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score 48 · Answer 2

Swift

score 89 · Answer 3

Racket

OS:Linux, Windows, OSX

Site:racket-lang.org

Current stable version:6.11

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score 120 · Answer 4

Nim

writeLine(stdout, "hello") can be written as stdout.writeLine("hello") proc add(a: int): int = a + 5 can be used like 6.add.echo or 6.add().echo() See More

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License:MIT

CPU:All CPU architectures that have an ANSI C compiler

OS:Windows, MacOS/iOS, Linux /Android/Termux, BSD, Solaris/SmartOS, HaikuOS, lots of others

Site:https://nim-lang.org

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score 195 · Answer 5

Haxe

You should use externs when calling non Haxe code, but if you just need to call one or two external JS functions, you can skip type checking by calling untyped code. See More

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Price:Free, Open Source

Site:https://haxe.org/

Current stable version:3.4.4

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score 144 · Answer 6

Smalltalk

Many languages today use object orientation, while the most of them stock on the half way in that perspective. Smalltalk sees literally everything as an object and this includes things like the classes and primitive data types. There is are zero control structures such as selection and iteration, since all is done by sending messages to objects. It use a lot of concepts from Lisp in order to provide a nice experience for this pure kind of object orientation. It provides immutable data structures, closures, anonymous functions and higher order functions, while all those functions are objects. This is what makes Smalltalk so simple, elegant, and easy. All this counts for Pharo, while other implementations as Amber are probably feature complete to it. See More

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It invented a lot of stuff

Smalltalk is the inventor of Just-in-Time compilation and the MVC concept, refactoring through their so-called refactoring browser and it was also one of the first adopters of a language virtual machine, closures, live programming, test driven development, an IDE and the development of GUI`s. See More

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OS:Windows, macOS, Linux

Current stable version:6.1

GZipped size:38MB

IDE Support:Self-Hosted

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score 853 · Answer 7

Python

Python's syntax supports optional type annotations for use with a third-party static type checker, which can catch a certain class of bugs at compile time. This also makes it easier for beginners to gradually transition to statically typed languages instead of wrestling with the compiler from the start. See More

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Interpreters for JS, Microtontrollers, .Net , Java & others

Python is not limited to just be cross platform. It goes far beyond all high level languages since it can run on top of several other frameworks & architectures : Examples of interpreters: Standard (PC Win/Lin/Mac, ARM, Raspberry, Smartphones): CPython usually, but some more specialized for smartphones: Kyvi, QPython, ... Web Browser JS : Brython, PyJS, .Net : IronPython Java: Jython Microcontrollers with WiFi like ESP8266 or ESP32: MicroPython Can be statically compiled (instead of interpreted) with Cython. (Do not mix up with cPython) With python, you're sure your code can run (almost) everywhere, from 2€ computers to the most expensives. So, for instance, with Jython you can access the Java libraries with Python language. See More

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Best chances of earning most money

According to Quartz, Python programming skills on average earn $100,000 per year. Closely followed by Java, C++, JavaScript, C, and R with $90,000 per year and above. See More

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Current stable version:3.7.2 and 2.7.15

GZipped size:22.5MB

Language type:Interpreted

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score 250 · Answer 8

Elixir

Site:https://elixir-lang.org

Current stable version:1.6

GZipped size:3.61 MB (without required Erlang VM)

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score 186 · Answer 9

Kotlin

Kotlin has been designed and built by developers who have an industrial background and not an academic one. As such, it tries to solve issues mostly found in industrial settings. For example, the Kotlin type system helps developers avoid null pointer exceptions. Reasearch languages usually do not have null at all, but APIs and large codebases usually need null. See More

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Price:Free, Open Source

Site:http://kotlinlang.org

Current stable version:1.3

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score 245 · Answer 10

Clojure

Current stable version:1.9

GZipped size:3.7Mb, requires JAVA

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score 281 · Answer 11

Elm

Luckily you do not have to learn Haskell to be able to do any Elm. It is meant to be a language that compiles to Javascript, so for Javascript programmers (Front end) not for CS students who want to learn as many different algorithms as possible. See More

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Platforms:Windows Linux Mac Web

Price:Open Source

Site:http://elm-lang.org/

Current stable version:0.19

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score 83 · Answer 12

Julia

Julia provides a high level of abstraction, making platform-independent programming trivial and easing the learning curve. See More

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Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD

Site:julialang.org

Current stable version:1.0

Type Model:Dynamically Typed

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score 287 · Answer 13

Go

This naturally also supports first class and high order functions, so you may pass functions as variables to other functions. See More

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Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac etc.

Current stable version:1.11.1 / October 1, 2018

Developer:Google with Ken Thompson, Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike

GZipped size:21,1 MB

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score 44 · Answer 14

Ceylon

If you don't use platform-specific features, you can reuse the same code in your backend server (be it in Java or JavaScript) and in your client-side browser code, for example for storing data, validating input etc. See More

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Price:Free, Open Source

Site:http://ceylon-lang.org

Current stable version:1.3.2

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score 232 · Answer 15

Dart

Dart to Javascript compiler (dart2js) generates very high quality source code with very high optimization. The output code is also very readable and easy to understand. See More

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Crossplatform

Dart does not just compile to JavaScript, it also compiles to native code on mobile platforms like iOS and Android as demonstrated by flutter.io See More

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Price:Free, Open Source

Site:dartlang.org

Current stable version:2.1.0

IDE Support:Good quality IDE plugins for Jetbrains IDEs and Visual Studio Code

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score 103 · Answer 16

F#

Site:http://www.fsharp.org

Current stable version:4.1

IDE Support:Visual Studio, Code, Rider

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score 247 · Answer 17

TypeScript

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Price:Free, Open source

Site:http://www.typescriptlang.org/

Current stable version:3.2

IDE Support:Very good

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score 216 · Answer 18

Haskell

Makes categorical higher order abstractions easy to use and natural to the language See More

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Site:https://www.haskell.org/

Paradigm:functional

Type System:static

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score 4 · Answer 19

MS PowerShell

score 121 · Answer 20

Lua

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