The Best 55 Lua Alternatives

  • JavaScript icon

    JavaScript

    JavaScript (sometimes shortened to JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions, most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but also used in many non-browser environments.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone BSD Chrome OS Web

    Asynchronous Programmers Documentation
  • C (programming language) icon

    C (programming language)

    C is a general-purpose computer programming language. C is one of the most widely used programming languages of all time.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet BSD iPad

  • C++ icon

    C++

    C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose, powerful programming language.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • Ruby icon

    Ruby

    Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Haiku

  • C# icon

    C#

    C# is a multi-paradigm programming language encompassing strong typing, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

    Object oriented Language Compiled Language
  • Perl icon

    Perl

    Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language with over 22 years of development. The Perl languages borrow features from other programming languages including C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, and sed.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Haiku

  • Go (Programming Language) icon

    Go (Programming Language)

    Go, also called golang, is a programming language initially developed at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • Dart icon

    Dart

    Dart (originally called Dash) is a Web programming language developed by Google. It was unveiled at the GOTO conference in Aarhus, 2011 October 10-12.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Haskell icon

    Haskell

    Haskell is an advanced purely-functional programming language. An open-source product of more than twenty years of cutting-edge research, it allows rapid development of robust, concise, correct software.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • Objective-C icon

    Objective-C

    The Objective-C language is a simple computer language designed to enable sophisticated object-oriented programming. Objective-C is defined as a small but powerful set of extensions to the standard ANSI C language.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • jRuby icon

    jRuby

    JRuby is a 100% Java implementation of the Ruby programming language running on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Clojure icon

    Clojure

    Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine (and the CLR ).

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • FreeBASIC icon

    FreeBASIC

    FreeBASIC is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with syntax similar to MS-QuickBASIC, that adds new features such as pointers, unsigned data types, inline assembly, object orientation, and many others.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux