Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Chicken

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Chess Dynamic Programming Language Front-End Frameworks Generic Programming Language IDE JS Library Javascript UI Libraries Numerical Computation OOP Programming Language Technical Computing Text Editors

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Chicken are Racket Lang, Clojure, and Steel Bank Common Lisp. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Racket Lang Landing Page
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Racket Lang

Racket (formerly PLT Scheme) is a modern programming language in the Lisp/Scheme family, suitable...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 91 social mentions
Clojure Landing Page
2

Clojure

Clojure is a dynamic, general-purpose programming language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 36 social mentions
Steel Bank Common Lisp Landing Page
3

Steel Bank Common Lisp

Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) is a high performance Common Lisp compiler.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #IDE 5 social mentions
Python Landing Page
4

Python

Python is a clear and powerful object-oriented programming language, comparable to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, or Java.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 280 social mentions
LIPS Scheme Landing Page
5

LIPS Scheme

Scheme based powerful lisp interpreter written in JavaScript
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #IDE #Text Editors 8 social mentions
Julia Landing Page
6

Julia

Julia is a sophisticated programming language designed especially for numerical computing with specializations in analysis and computational science. It is also efficient for web use, general programming, and can be used as a specification language.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #Technical Computing #OOP 114 social mentions
Rust Landing Page
7

Rust

A safe, concurrent, practical language
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 44 social mentions
bacon.js Landing Page
8

bacon.js

A small functional reactive programming lib for JavaScript.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Javascript UI Libraries #JS Library #Front-End Frameworks 1 social mentions
Haskell Landing Page
9

Haskell

An advanced purely-functional programming language
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 21 social mentions
Elixir Landing Page
10

Elixir

Dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 74 social mentions
MLton Landing Page
11

MLton

MLton is an open-source, whole-program, optimizing Standard ML compiler
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 5 social mentions
Agda Landing Page
12

Agda

Agda is a dependently typed functional programming language. It has inductive families, i.e.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 7 social mentions