Top 15 OCaml Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

OCaml is an industrial strength programming language supporting functional, imperative and object-oriented styles.

1. Ceylon

Ceylon Support for Java and JavaScript virtual machinesWrite your code in Ceylon, and have it run on the JVM, on Node.js, or in a web browser. Some modules are platform-dependent, but the language itself is equally at home on Java and JavaScript virtual machines.Ceylon modules may be deployed on Ceylon's own......

2. Cobra

Cobra Cobra is a high-performance, rapid-development programming language.It combines features from Python, C#, Objective-C, Eiffel and other languages in order to boost developer productivity.Cobra is open source under the MIT license.......

3. Python

Python Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language. It provides an extraordinary combination of clarity and versatility, and is free and comprehensively ported.......

4. Kotlin

Kotlin Statically typed programming language targeting the JVM and JavaScript 100% interoperable with Java™......

5. Squirrel (programming language)

Squirrel (programming language) Squirrel is a high level imperative, object-oriented programming language, designed to be a light-weight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like video games.......

6. Julia

Julia Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. The library, largely written in Julia itself, also integrates mature, best-of-breed......

7. RapydScript

RapydScript RapydScript is a pre-compiler for JavaScript, similar to CoffeeScript, but with cleaner, more readable syntax. The syntax is very similar to Python, but allows JavaScript as well. It's not another Python-in-a-browser clone, it's actually JavaScript with more Pythonic syntax.RapydScript breaks some of the rules of Python to make JavaScript development......

8. Typescript

Typescript Now acquired by MICROSOFT. TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript in any browser, any host, any OS and it is Open Source.......

9. Vala

Vala Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.......

10. L2 programming language

L2 programming language L2 is a programming language that attempts to turn as much of C's preprocessor directives, control structures, statements, literals, and functions requiring compiler assistance into things definable inside L2.......

11. Ruby

Ruby Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was initially developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto.Ruby enjoys a large number of libraries and users. It is based on Perl, Smalltalk,......

12. Java

Java Java is the foundation for virtually every type of networked application and is the global standard for developing and delivering embedded and mobile applications, games, Web-based content, and enterprise software. With more than 9 million developers worldwide, Java enables you to efficiently develop, deploy and use exciting applications and services.......

13. Apple Swift

Apple Swift Swift is a programming language for iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS apps that builds on the best of C and Objective-C, without the constraints of C compatibility. Swift adopts safe programming patterns and adds modern features to make programming easier, more flexible, and more fun. Swift’s clean slate, backed......

14. Clojure

Clojure Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine (and the CLR ). It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it......

15. Hack

Hack Hack is a programming language for HHVM that interoperates seamlessly with PHP. Hack reconciles the fast development cycle of PHP with the discipline provided by static typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming languages.Hack provides instantaneous type checking via a local server that watches the filesystem.......