What is the best alternative to Smalltalk?

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score 219 · Answer 1

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 195 · 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 85 · 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 100 · Answer 4

Racket

Current stable version:6.11

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score 122 · Answer 5

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

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

CPU:All CPU architectures that have an ANSI C compiler

Site:https://nim-lang.org

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score 273 · Answer 6

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 127 · Answer 7

Pascal / Object Pascal

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

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score 868 · Answer 8

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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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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Includes pygame library

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:3.7.2 and 2.7.15

GZipped size:22.5MB

Language type:Interpreted

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score 253 · Answer 9

Clojure

Price:Free, Open Source

Site:www.clojure.org

Current stable version:1.9

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score 105 · Answer 10

F#

Site:http://www.fsharp.org

Current stable version:4.1

IDE Support:Visual Studio, Code, Rider

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score 76 · Answer 11

Common Lisp

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Very Powerful REPL with SLIME

SLIME (Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs). See More

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Carefully designed for interactive use

Almost all aspects of the language are designed with interactive/repl use in mind. See More

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Condition/restart system

It is easy to recover from errors. Error resolution can be determined by the user at the REPL. See More

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Almost as fast as, or faster than, C

Some compilers such as SBCL can be faster than C or other low-level languages, and most compilers can generate fast native code. See More

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score 295 · Answer 12

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 241 · Answer 13

Rust

Current stable version:1.32.0

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score 145 · 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 49 · Answer 15

Swift

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score 30 · Answer 16

Assembly

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score 4 · 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 114 · Answer 18

ClojureScript

ClojureScript has superb wrappers around React.js (see Reagent) that make building single-page apps a breeze. With figwheel, it's a web dev experience unlike any other -- hotloaded code, repl interaction, and instantly reflected changes make good development fun and fast. You can add things like Garden to make CSS-writing part of the same holistic experience and suddenly all development is a pleasant, smooth process. 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 190 · 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 288 · Answer 20

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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