What is the best alternative to Elixir?

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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 272 · Answer 2

Clojure

Price:Free, Open Source

Site:www.clojure.org

Current stable version:1.10

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272 89

score 449 · Answer 3

JavaScript

Author:Ryan Dahl/Joyent

Version(Latest):10.x

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

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449 218

score 117 · Answer 4

F#

Site:http://www.fsharp.org

Current stable version:4.1

IDE Support:Visual Studio, Code, Rider

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117 46

score 275 · Answer 5

Rust

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Current stable version:1.34.1

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275 121

score 221 · Answer 6

Scala

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Price:Open Source (Free)

Site:scala-lang.org

Current stable version:2.12.6

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score 142 · Answer 7

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 927 · 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

Language type:Interpreted

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score 318 · Answer 9

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 317 · 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 212 · Answer 11

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 65 · Answer 12

Erlang

65 43

score 40 · Answer 13

OCaml

OS:Linux, Windows, OSX, BSD

Price:Open source (Free)

Site:http://ocaml.org

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score 209 · 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:1.3

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209 64

score 266 · Answer 15

TypeScript

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Price:Free, Open source

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

Current stable version:3.4

IDE Support:Very good

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266 102

score 150 · Answer 16

PHP

Current stable version:7.3

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score 197 · Answer 17

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 82 · Answer 18

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 132 · Answer 19

Lua

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score 119 · Answer 20

Scheme