What is the best alternative to F#?

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score 237 · 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 309 · Answer 2

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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309 92

score 281 · Answer 3

Rust

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Current stable version:1.34.1

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281 122

score 272 · Answer 4

Clojure

Price:Free, Open Source

Site:www.clojure.org

Current stable version:1.10

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score 221 · Answer 5

Scala

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Price:Open Source (Free)

Site:scala-lang.org

Current stable version:2.12.6

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score 144 · Answer 6

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 320 · Answer 7

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 450 · Answer 8

JavaScript

Author:Ryan Dahl/Joyent

Version(LTS):8.x

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

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450 220

score 927 · Answer 9

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

Language type:Interpreted

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score 209 · Answer 10

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 320 · Answer 11

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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320 101

score 40 · Answer 12

OCaml

OS:Linux, Windows, OSX, BSD

Price:Open source (Free)

Site:http://ocaml.org

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40 18

score 65 · Answer 13

Erlang

65 43

score 92 · Answer 14

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 82 · Answer 15

Common Lisp

Top Pro

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 7 · Answer 16

Nim

Top Pro

Python-like syntax

Readable, clean and familiar to Python developers. See More

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Great portability and optimization

Nim gains portability and optimization because it compiles to C, which offers a lot of choices from modern C compilers. See More

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Cross-platform

Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. See More

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Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Site:https://nim-lang.org/

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score 132 · Answer 17

Lua

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score 266 · Answer 18

TypeScript

Specs

Price:Free, Open source

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

Current stable version:3.4

IDE Support:Very good

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266 103

score 212 · Answer 19

Ruby

Focussing on OOP in a beginner stage is an easy and popular plan, but not the best one. See More

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Price:Open Source (Free)

Site:https://www.ruby-lang.org

Current stable version:2.6.0

GZipped size:15.9 MB

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score 119 · Answer 20

Scheme