The Best 34 PHP 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
  • 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

  • Lua icon

    Lua

    Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics.

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

    Scripting Scripting 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

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    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

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    Haxe

    Haxe is an open source toolkit based on a modern high level strictly typed programming language, a state-of-the-art light-speed cross-compiler, a complete cross-platform standard library, and ways to access to each platform's native...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Raspberry Pi

    Object oriented Language Pattern matching
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    ASP.NET

    Asp.net is an open source server-side Web application framework designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages, web sites, apps and services with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

    Free Windows

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    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
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    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
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    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

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    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

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    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