Top 15 Racket Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Racket (formerly PLT Scheme) is a modern programming language in the Lisp/Scheme family, suitable for a wide range of applications. It goes beyond Lisp and Scheme with dialects that support objects, types, laziness, and more. Racket enables programmers to link components written in different dialects, and it empowers programmers to create new, project-specific dialects. Racket's libraries support applications from web servers and databases to GUIs and charts.

Racket comes with an IDE called DrRacket (formerly DrScheme).

1. Wyvern

Wyvern Wyvern is a new programming language designed to help developers be highly productive when writing high-assurance applications. The first major innovation in Wyvern is type-specific languages, a feature that allows programmers to create literals of a given type (e.g. a SQLQuery type) in a language appropriate to that type (e.g.......

2. REBOL

REBOL Rebol (historically REBOL) is a cross-platform data exchange language and a multi-paradigm dynamic programming language designed by Carl Sassenrath for network communications and distributed computing. It introduces the concept of dialecting: small, optimized, domain-specific languages for code and data.Douglas Crockford of JavaScript fame has described REBOL as "a more modern......

3. 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......

4. Hy

Hy Hy is a wonderful dialect of Lisp that’s embedded in Python.Since Hy transforms its Lisp code into the Python Abstract Syntax Tree, you have the whole beautiful world of Python at your fingertips, in Lisp form!......

5. Foobar

Foobar Foobar is an easy to use, "edit and run", coding environment with support for multiple programming languages and technologies. With Foobar you can easily write tools and scripts, test your ideas and learn new techniques and algorithms all from the same place. Utilise the console or the preview area to......

6. Eclipse Xtext

Eclipse Xtext Xtext is an open-source framework for developing programming languages and domain-specific languages (DSLs). Unlike standard parser generators, Xtext not only generates a parser, but also a class model for the Abstract Syntax Tree and a fully featured, customizable Eclipse-based IDE.Xtext is being developed in the Eclipse Project as part of......

7. Python

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8. Quincy

Quincy Simple, free C/C++ Programming IDE for Windows......

9. 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......

10. Perl 6

Perl 6 Perl 6 unifies many great ideas that aren't usually found in other programming languages. While several other languages offer some of these features, none of them offer all.Features:- Object-oriented programming including generics, roles and multiple dispatch- Functional programming primitives, lazy and eager list evaluation, junctions, autothreading and hyperoperators (vector operators)-......

11. TextPad

TextPad TextPad is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements. It can edit files up to the limits of virtual memory, and it will work with the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2003 and 2008.TextPad has been......

12. 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.......

13. 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.......

14. OCaml

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

15. 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.......