What is the best alternative to Pony?

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score 3 · Answer 1

ATS

score 48 · Answer 2

Swift

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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 228 · Answer 4

Rust

Current stable version:1.31.1

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score 27 · Answer 5

Idris

Top Pro

Full dependent types

Idris not only has support for type classes, but is a fully dependently typed language, giving you the full power to statically verify your code. See More

Top Con

Weaker type inference

As type inference is undecidable for dependently-typed languages, Idris cannot offer the full type inference that Haskell supports, and so more type annotations will be needed. See More

Top Pro

Domain driven design and type driven development

Because of full dependent types in Idris, the programmer can focus more on modelling the domain with types and waste less time fixing common bugs that the type checker will catch. Dependent types help apply type driven development and a lot of code auto generation, making the compiler and type checker an ally in developing working software instead of just getting in the way. See More

Top Con

Different semantics from Haskell

Idris, while similar to Haskell, has strict semantics, which may cause some confusion if your backend is done in Haskell. If using Idris, it would make sense to do the backend in Idris as well, if not for the fact that Idris currently has fewer libraries available for web development than Haskell. See More

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score 119 · 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

Specs

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 125 · Answer 7

Pascal / Object Pascal

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

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score 247 · Answer 8

Elixir

Site:https://elixir-lang.org

Current stable version:1.6

GZipped size:3.61 MB (without required Erlang VM)

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score 245 · Answer 9

Clojure

Current stable version:1.9

GZipped size:3.7Mb, requires JAVA

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score 83 · Answer 10

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 34 · Answer 11

OCaml

Price:Open source (Free)

OS:Linux, Windows, OSX, BSD

Site:http://ocaml.org

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score 215 · Answer 12

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 70 · Answer 13

Common Lisp

Top Pro

Very Powerful REPL with SLIME

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

Top Pro

Carefully designed for interactive use

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

Top Pro

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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score 201 · Answer 14

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 231 · Answer 15

C#

With .NET core it is a truly universal programming language which support desktop apps (Windows), Mobile apps (Xamarin), Web Apps (ASP.Core MVC). Also is perfectly fit to serverless programming for micro services. Soon it will be also support Web assembly (Blazor). See More

Specs

Price:Free

Current stable version:7

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score 206 · Answer 16

Scala

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Price:Open Source (Free)

Site:scala-lang.org

Current stable version:2.12.6

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score 270 · Answer 17

C

All the modern languages have resulted in ditching the ancient deprecated model of #include statements and have instead adopted the superior model of modules. When compiling software written in C, the programmer is forced to also compile X headers which contain Y headers which contain Z headers and so forth -- drastically increasing the number of lines that need to be compiled. In order to compile something as simple as "Hello, World", for example, 18K lines of code needs to be compiled. This can be very taxing on RAM and CPU resources, causing compile times to quickly absorb a large portion of the programming process. See More

Top Con

Heavily outdated programming concepts

C lacks a large majority of programming concepts that modern languages make use of today. The existing functionality of C makes use of outdated and deprecated methodologies which can be of great annoyance to the modern day programmer. See More

Specs

Price:Depends on Implementation, usually free

Current stable version:C'18

Standard:ISO/IEC 9899:2011/Cor 1:2012 or C11

Paradigm:imperative

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score 72 · Answer 18

D

Specs

Site:https://dlang.org/

Current stable version:2.076.0

Website:https://dlang.org/download.html

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score 143 · Answer 19

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 59 · Answer 20

Erlang

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