The Best 51 JavaScript Alternatives

  • LiveScript icon

    LiveScript

    LiveScript is a language which compiles down to JavaScript. It is a fork of Coco which is in turn derived from CoffeeScript. Like those two it has a relatively...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Lasso icon

    Lasso

    Lasso is one of the most popular programming languages on the web - though it is often overlooked given that it is commercial, not open-source. But for a small fee, a...

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Script# icon

    Script#

    Script# brings the power and productivity of C# and .NET tools to Ajax development by compiling C# source code into regular JavaScript.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Transcrypt icon

    Transcrypt

    Transcrypt is a tool to precompile a fairly extensive subset of Python into compact, readable Javascript. FEATURES: - Allows for classical OO programming with...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux JavaScript

  • Kaffeine JS icon

    Kaffeine JS

    Kaffeine is a set of extensions to the Javascript syntax that attempt to make it nicer to use. It compiles directly into javascript that is very similar, readable and...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Elixir icon

    Elixir

    Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD FreeBSD

  • Elm icon

    Elm

    Elm aims to make web development more pleasant. Elm is a type-safe, functional reactive language that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Avian icon

    Avian

    Avian is a lightweight virtual machine and class lbrary designed to provide a useful subset of Java’s features, suitable for building self-contained applications. It's Efficient.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux iPhone BSD iPad

  • X10 (programming language) icon

    X10 (programming language)

    The X10 programming language is organized around four basic principles of asynchrony, locality, atomicity, and order that are developed on a type-safe, class-based...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Brython icon

    Brython

    Brython's goal is to replace Javascript with Python, as the scripting language for web browsers.

    Free Open Source Web

  • Objective-J icon

    Objective-J

    objective-j is a programming language developed as part of the cappuccino web development framework.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • AngelScript icon

    AngelScript

    The AngelCode Scripting Library, or AngelScript as it is also known, is an extremely flexible cross-platform scripting library designed to allow applications to extend...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

    Embeddable Scripting language
  • Amber Smalltalk icon

    Amber Smalltalk

    Amber is a language (derived from Smalltalk) and environment built for the web. With Amber, client-side web development finally gets the power and productivity that...

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted Node.JS

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    JSX

    JSX is a statically-typed, object-oriented programming language designed to run on browsers. .

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux JavaScript