What is the best alternative to Julia?

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score 281 · Answer 1

Clojure

Price:Free, Open Source

Site:www.clojure.org

Current stable version:1.10

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score 250 · Answer 2

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 156 · Answer 3

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 963 · Answer 4

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 5

F#

Site:http://www.fsharp.org

Current stable version:4.1

IDE Support:Visual Studio, Code, Rider

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score 87 · Answer 6

Common Lisp

Scala

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Price:Open Source (Free)

Site:scala-lang.org

Current stable version:2.12.6

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score 117 · Answer 8

Racket

Current stable version:7.3

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score 331 · Answer 9

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 358 · Answer 10

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 11

Rust

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Current stable version:1.34.1

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score 124 · Answer 12

Scheme

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Smalltalk

Hybrid languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++) make it easy to slip into procedural thinking. Smalltalk's pure OO approach makes it hard not to think in object-oriented terms. In addition, since the entire IDE and runtime components are there in the image for you to browse, you have plenty of examples of good OO design to learn from. See More

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Provides a functional way to interact with objects

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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OS:Windows, macOS, Linux

Current stable version:6.1

GZipped size:38MB

IDE Support:Self-Hosted

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score 332 · Answer 14

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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score 44 · Answer 15

OCaml

OS:Linux, Windows, OSX, BSD

Price:Open source (Free)

Site:http://ocaml.org

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score 7 · Answer 16

Hy

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Python interop

Hy compiles to Python's abstract syntax trees. Python can import Hy modules, and Hy can import Python modules. See More

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Easier to read

Distinguished between arrays (or vectors) and function calls by using [] and (), respectively. See More

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Copyfree and open source

Uses the MIT (expat) license. See More

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score 469 · Answer 17

JavaScript

Author:Ryan Dahl/Joyent

Minimum Supported ECMAScript Version:ECMAScript 6 (Node v4.x-v10.x)

Version(LTS):8.x

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score 65 · Answer 18

Erlang

65 44

score 53 · Answer 19

Swift

53 46

score 6 · Answer 20

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