What is the best alternative to Smalltalk?

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score 250 · Answer 1

Haskell

Haskell is really popular in universities and academia as a tool to teach programming. A lot of books for people who don't know programming are written around Haskell. This means that there are a lot of resources for beginners in programming with which to learn Haskell and functional programming concepts. See More

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

Paradigm:functional

Type System:static

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score 200 · Answer 2

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 104 · Answer 3

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 117 · Answer 4

Racket

Current stable version:7.3

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score 156 · Answer 5

Nim

Nim has "asyncdispatch" module, which allows you to write async applications. See More

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

License:MIT

CPU:All CPU architectures that have an ANSI C compiler

Site:https://nim-lang.org

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score 144 · Answer 6

Pascal / Object Pascal

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

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score 331 · Answer 7

Elixir

Comes with built in build tool called "mix". This will automatically download libraries and put them in the scope of the application when you add them to the "deps" function and run mix deps.get See More

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Price:Open source (Free)

Site:https://elixir-lang.org

Current stable version:1.8.1

GZipped size:3.61 MB (without required Erlang VM)

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score 963 · Answer 8

Python

Want to start game development? No problem! Using pygame open-source library you can fast begin creating games without worrying about pointers or undefined behaviors which they exists in C/C++. See More

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Platforms:Windows, Linux, macOS, AIX, IBM i, iOS, z/OS, Solaris, VMS

Current stable version:3.7.3 and 2.7.16

GZipped size:22.5MB

Typing discipline:Dynamically typed

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score 124 · Answer 9

F#

Site:http://www.fsharp.org

Current stable version:4.1

IDE Support:Visual Studio, Code, Rider

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score 281 · Answer 10

Clojure

Price:Free, Open Source

Site:www.clojure.org

Current stable version:1.10

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score 87 · Answer 11

Common Lisp

Go

Current stable version:1.12.1 / February 25, 2019

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

GZipped size:217 mb

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score 305 · Answer 13

Rust

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Current stable version:1.34.1

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score 161 · Answer 14

C++

Arrays, strings, pointers, etc. have both C and C++ versions. Sometimes the C++ versions are worse. This is more useless trivia beginners have to sort through. See More

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Price:Depends on Implementation

Engine:UE4 , Cocos-2d-x

Standard: ISO/IEC 14882 or C++17

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score 53 · Answer 15

Swift

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score 32 · Answer 16

Assembly

Assembly language syntax is relatively uniform, and so there's less room for a student to get confused by obscure characters, or miss some meaning implied by structure, such as with scoping rules, or call-by-name/value/reference semantics. While there may be a lot of mnemonics to look up, most work involves only a very small subset of them. See More

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score 5 · Answer 17

Red

Red has very simple syntax that's easy to learn. It gets out of your way and lets you think about the problem instead, enhancing productivity. See More

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score 122 · Answer 18

ClojureScript

From the creator of Clojure: Spec is a new core library (Clojure 1.9 and Clojurescript) to support data and function specifications in Clojure. Writing a spec should enable automatic: Validation, Error reporting, Destructuring, Instrumentation, Test-data generation and Generative test generation. See More

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Price:Open Source

Site:https://clojurescript.org/

Current stable version:1.9

GZipped size:32 kB

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score 230 · Answer 19

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 332 · Answer 20

Elm

The Elm Architecture means you don't need to spend valuable time and effort choosing the right frameworks, state management libraries, or build tooling. It's all built in. 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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