What is the best alternative to Pony?

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score 261 · Answer 1

Go

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

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac etc.

Current stable version:1.9.2

GZipped size:16MB

Author:Google and Ken Thompson

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score 203 · Answer 2

Rust

Current stable version:1.29.0

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score 2 · Answer 3

ATS

score 26 · Answer 4

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 102 · Answer 5

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 120 · Answer 6

Pascal / Object Pascal

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

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score 230 · Answer 7

Clojure

Current stable version:1.9

GZipped size:3.7Mb, requires JAVA

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score 217 · Answer 8

Elixir

You can call Erlang functions directly without any overhead: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/erlang-libraries.html 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 33 · Answer 9

OCaml

Price:Open source (Free)

OS:Linux, Windows, OSX, BSD

Site:http://ocaml.org

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score 77 · Answer 10

Julia

Dynamic and high level, but does not isolate the user from properly thinking about types. Can do explicit type signatures which is great for teaching structured thinking. See More

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Site:julialang.org

Current stable version:1.0

Type Model:Dynamically Typed

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score 67 · Answer 11

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 206 · 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/

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score 221 · Answer 13

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

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Price:Free

Current stable version:7

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score 189 · 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:2.4.1

GZipped size:13.5 MB

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score 195 · Answer 15

Scala

Specs

Price:Open Source (Free)

Site:scala-lang.org

Current stable version:2.12.6

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score 258 · Answer 16

C

Modern programming languages are capable of compiling split source code files by concatenating them together efficiently at compile time before compiling them. However, C requires the developer to resort to messing with header files and makefiles to get similar functionality. See More

Top Con

Includes require obscene resources to compile

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

Specs

Price:Depends on Implementation, usually free

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

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score 71 · Answer 17

D

Specs

Site:https://dlang.org/

Current stable version:2.076.0

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

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score 135 · Answer 18

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 55 · Answer 19

Erlang

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score 7 · Answer 20

Objective-C

Objective-C is built on top of C, and as such, requires at least a basic understanding of how to program in C. See More

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