What is the best alternative to TouchDevelop?

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score 118 · Answer 1

Pascal / Object Pascal

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

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score 27 · Answer 2

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 4 · Answer 3

MS PowerShell

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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 3 · Answer 5

Rebol

score 45 · Answer 6

bash

score 78 · Answer 7

Racket

OS:Linux, Windows, OSX

Site:racket-lang.org

Current stable version:6.11

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score 189 · Answer 8

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 137 · Answer 9

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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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 7 · Answer 10

DASH

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Fast startup

Dash has a very fast startup, this happens because the shell is started a lot of times during boot and dash minimizes the work it does during this process. See More

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Doesn't support all bash features

Dash does not support all bash features, sometimes called 'bashisms' unless explicitly pointed at /bin/sh. See More

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Low memory usage, which matters a lot in embedded

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Default shell on Debian systems

Dash is the default shell for Debian based systems (which includes Ubuntu). See More

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score 43 · Answer 11

Pharo

Most languages are still copying the Smalltalk tools of yesterday - GTInspector (written in Glamorous) takes live exploration of code/running objects to a new level. It's really slick, and better yet, you can easily write your own inspectors in 10 lines of code. See More

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Code can be run on rock solid GemStone environment

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Platforms:MacOSX; Linux; Windows

License:MIT

Price:Free / Open Source

Auto Complete:Y

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score 99 · Answer 12

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 791 · Answer 13

Python

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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Static typing via mypy

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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Current stable version:3.7.0 and 2.7.15

GZipped size:22.5MB

Language type:Interpreted

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score 167 · Answer 14

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:1.2

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score 261 · Answer 15

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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Price:Open Source

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

Current stable version:0.18

GZipped size:23.2 kB

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score 210 · Answer 16

Elixir

Write code that writes code with Elixir macros. Macros make metaprogramming possible and define the language itself. See More

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Price:Open source (Free)

Site:https://elixir-lang.org

Current stable version:1.6

GZipped size:3.61 MB (without required Erlang VM)

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score 217 · Answer 17

Clojure

Current stable version:1.9

GZipped size:3.7Mb, requires JAVA

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score 254 · Answer 18

Go

Go is blazing fast, but easier to write than Python, JS, Ruby, or many other dynamic languages. See More

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Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac etc.

Current stable version:1.9.2

GZipped size:16MB

Author:Google and Ken Thompson

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score 45 · Answer 19

ASP.NET MVC

You can get ordinary details quickly but with complete freedom to make your craft, knowing everything that is happening underneath the cloths. The highly modular system makes it possible to scale small applications to large ones with ease. See More

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score 99 · Answer 20

F#

Site:http://www.fsharp.org

Current stable version:4.1

IDE Support:Visual Studio, Code, Rider

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