The Best 55 Lua Alternatives

  • Tcl icon

    Tcl

    Tcl (originally from "Tool Command Language", but conventionally rendered as "Tcl" rather than "TCL"; pronounced as "tickle" or "tee-see-ell") is a scripting language created by John...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

    Scripting Scripting language
  • Vala icon

    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...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD

  • REBOL icon

    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.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

    Portable Scripting Distributed Computing
  • thinBasic icon

    thinBasic

    thinBasic is a simple, flexible, and easy-to-learn interpreted programming language. It lets you quickly and easily develop programs for Windows. thinBasic was first...

    Free Windows

  • wxBasic icon

    wxBasic

    wxBasic is an Basic interpreter that is: * Free * Open Source (LGPL) * Cross-platform (currently Windows and Linux) wxBasic can create stand-alone...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Racket icon

    Racket

    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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • 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

  • Neko icon

    Neko

    Neko is an high-level dynamicly typed programming language. It can be used as an embedded scripting language. It has been designed to provide a common runtime for...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • sdlBasic icon

    sdlBasic

    sdlBasic is a small, efficient and multiplatform basic interpreter aimed to game creation using the power of SDL library, it was inspired by the old and glorious AMOS. sdlBasic is open source software.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • io (Programming Language) icon

    io (Programming Language)

    Io is a prototype-based programming language inspired by Smalltalk (all values are objects, all messages are dynamic), Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Raspberry Pi

  • Factor icon

    Factor

    The Factor programming language combines powerful language features with a full-featured library. The implementation is fully compiled for performance, while still...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Pyret icon

    Pyret

    Pyret is a programming language designed to serve as an outstanding choice for programming education while exploring the confluence of scripting and functional programming.

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted