Open Source Linux Programming Languages
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Pygame
Set of Python modules designed for writing video games
Pygame is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. Like SDL, pygame is highly portable and runs on nearly every platform and operating system. -
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CLIPS Rule Based Programming Language
Expert System Tool
CLIPS is a forward-chaining rule-based programming language written in C that also provides procedural and object-oriented programming facilities. -
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Node-RED
Low-code programming for event-driven applications
Node-RED is a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways. It provides a browser-based editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the palette that can be deployed to its runtime in a single-click. Node-RED provides a browser-based flow editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the palette. Flows can be then deployed to the runtime in a single-click. JavaScript functions can be created within the editor using a rich text editor. A built-in library allows you to save useful functions, templates or flows for re-use. The light-weight runtime is built on Node.js, taking full advantage of its event-driven, non-blocking model. This makes it ideal to run at the edge of the network on low-cost hardware such as the Raspberry Pi as well as in the cloud. -
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MicroPython
Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems
MicroPython is a lean and efficient implementation of the Python 3 programming language that includes a small subset of the Python standard library and is optimised to run on microcontrollers and in constrained environments. The MicroPython pyboard is a compact electronic circuit board that runs MicroPython on the bare metal, giving you a low-level Python operating system that can be used to control all kinds of electronic projects. MicroPython is packed full of advanced features such as an interactive prompt, arbitrary precision integers, closures, list comprehension, generators, exception handling and more. Yet it is compact enough to fit and run within just 256k of code space and 16k of RAM. MicroPython aims to be as compatible with normal Python as possible to allow you to transfer code with ease from the desktop to a microcontroller or embedded system. -
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Scala 3
The Scala 3 compiler, also known as Dotty
Scala 3 is the latest major release of the Scala language—featuring a complete compiler rewrite (Dotty), new syntax with optional braces and given/using contextual abstractions, union/intersection types, opaque types, first-class enums, and better type inference. It unifies object-oriented and functional programming paradigms into a safer, more expressive language running on the JVM with full Java interoperability. -
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Lua
The Lua development repository, as seen by the Lua team
Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode with a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. Lua is designed, implemented, and maintained by a team at PUC-Rio, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Lua was born and raised in Tecgraf, formerly the Computer Graphics Technology Group of PUC-Rio. Lua is now housed at LabLua, a laboratory of the Department of Computer Science of PUC-Rio. -
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MetaCall Core
The ultimate polyglot programming experience
A polyglot runtime that enables seamless execution of multiple programming languages within the same environment, improving interoperability between different codebases. -
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Erlang/OTP
Build massively scalable soft real-time systems
Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Some of its uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop these systems. It includes its own distributed database, applications to interface towards other languages, debugging and release handling tools. Erlang/OTP is available as pre-built binary packages by most OS package managers. You can use Kerl, a script that lets you easily build Erlang with a few commands. We take security bugs in Erlang/OTP seriously. The Erlang distribution includes a step-by-step getting started guide. -
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Luau
Fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language
It is designed to be backward compatible with Lua 5.1, as well as incorporating some features from future Lua releases, but also expands the feature set (most notably with type annotations). Luau is largely implemented from scratch, with the language runtime being a very heavily modified version of Lua 5.1 runtime, with a completely rewritten interpreter and other performance innovations. The runtime mostly preserves Lua 5.1 API, so existing bindings should be more or less compatible with a few caveats. Luau is used by Roblox game developers to write game code, as well as by Roblox engineers to implement large parts of the user-facing application code as well as portions of the editor (Roblox Studio) as plugins. Roblox chose to open-source Luau to foster collaboration within the Roblox community as well as to allow other companies and communities to benefit from the ongoing language and runtime innovation. As a consequence, Luau is now also used by games like Alan Wake 2 and Warframe. -
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Python
The Python programming language
Python is a powerful, high-level programming language known for its readability, simplicity, and versatility. It supports multiple programming paradigms including procedural, object-oriented, and functional styles. CPython, the reference implementation, is developed and maintained by the Python Software Foundation and the global open-source community. The language includes a vast standard library that accelerates development by providing built-in modules for file handling, networking, data manipulation, and more. Python runs seamlessly across platforms such as Linux, macOS, and Windows, making it ideal for both development and production environments. With constant updates, optimizations, and an active community, Python continues to be one of the most widely adopted languages worldwide. -
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Lean 4
Lean 4 programming language and theorem prover
Lean 4 is both a programming language and an interactive theorem prover, designed to support formal reasoning while also functioning as an efficient and extensible general-purpose language. The project serves researchers, mathematicians, programmers, and formal methods users who need a system for writing machine-checked proofs as well as executable programs in the same environment. One of its defining characteristics is its emphasis on extensibility, since Lean 4 is built to allow users to develop custom automation, metaprogramming tools, and domain-specific extensions instead of being limited to a fixed proving workflow. The broader Lean ecosystem also includes official tutorials, language references, examples, and installation and build tools, which reflects that the project is not just a core compiler repository but the center of a mature development platform. -
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Wasp
A programming language that understands what a web app is
Wasp (Web Application Specification Language) is a declarative DSL (domain-specific language) for developing, building and deploying modern full-stack web apps with less code. Concepts such as app, page, user, login, frontend, production, etc. are baked into the language, bringing a new level of expressiveness and allowing you to get more work done with fewer lines of code. While describing high-level features with Wasp, you still write the rest of your logic in your favorite technologies (currently React, NodeJS, Prisma). Wasp is in alpha and is therefore likely to change a lot, have bugs and miss important features. Due to its expressiveness, you can create and deploy a production-ready web app from scratch with very few lines of concise, consistent, declarative code. When you need more control than Wasp offers, you can write code in existing technologies such as js/html/css/... and combine it with Wasp code! -
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Go
Go (Golang): An open-source programming language supported by Google
Go (Golang) is an open-source programming language designed for simplicity, reliability, and efficiency. Created by Google, it is well-suited for building scalable software, from small utilities to large distributed systems. Go features a clean syntax, strong typing, and built-in concurrency support through goroutines, making it ideal for modern multi-core processors. The language comes with a powerful standard library and tools for testing, formatting, and package management, streamlining development workflows. Go’s compiler produces fast, statically linked binaries with minimal dependencies, ensuring portability and performance. Backed by a large, active community, Go continues to evolve with regular updates and extensive documentation. -
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SmallBASIC
SmallBASIC is a fast and easy to learn BASIC language interpreter
SmallBASIC is a lightweight and powerful BASIC interpreter designed for simplicity and speed, suitable for hobbyists, educators, and retro computing enthusiasts. It offers a traditional text-based programming experience reminiscent of early microcomputers, while including modern features such as structured programming, graphics, and file I/O. SmallBASIC runs on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android, and DOS, making it accessible across a wide range of systems. -
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TypeScript
Application-scale JavaScript
TypeScript is an open source programming language that is a typed superset of JavaScript. It adds optional static typing to JavaScript, which can support tools for large-scale JavaScript applications for any browser, host and OS. TypeScript compiles to clean, simple JavaScript, and uses existing JavaScript code and libraries. It also offers support for the latest and evolving JavaScript features, such as async functions and decorators. -
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The Julia Programming Language
High-level, high-performance dynamic language for technical computing
Julia is a fast, open source high-performance dynamic language for technical computing. It can be used for data visualization and plotting, deep learning, machine learning, scientific computing, parallel computing and so much more. Having a high level syntax, Julia is easy to use for programmers of every level and background. Julia has more than 2,800 community-registered packages including various mathematical libraries, data manipulation tools, and packages for general purpose computing. Libraries from Python, R, C/Fortran, C++, and Java can also be used. -
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jsii
jsii allows code in any language to naturally interact with JavaScript
jsii allows code in any language to naturally interact with JavaScript classes. It is the technology that enables the AWS Cloud Development Kit to deliver polyglot libraries from a single codebase! A class library written in TypeScript can be used in projects authored in TypeScript or Javascript (as usual), but also in C# (and other languages from the .NET family), Go, Java, Python, etc. More languages will be added in the future! Due to JSON marshaling costs and the absence of a distributed garbage collector feature, jsii modules are best suited for development and build tools, as opposed to performance-sensitive or resource-constrained applications. By compiling our source module using jsii, we can now package it as modules in one of the supported target languages. Each target module has the exact same API as the source. This allows users of that target language to use Greeter like any other native type. -
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Faust
Functional programming language for signal processing
Faust (Functional Audio Stream) is a functional programming language for sound synthesis and audio processing with a strong focus on the design of synthesizers, musical instruments, audio effects, etc. Faust targets high-performance signal processing applications and audio plug-ins for a variety of platforms and standards. The core component of Faust is its compiler. It allows to "translate" any Faust digital signal processing (DSP) specification to a wide range of non-domain specific languages such as C++, C, LLVM bit code, WebAssembly, Rust, etc. In this regard, Faust can be seen as an alternative to C++ but is much simpler and more intuitive to learn. Thanks to a wrapping system called "architectures," codes generated by Faust can be easily compiled into a wide variety of objects ranging from audio plug-ins to standalone applications or smartphone and web apps, etc. -
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Modern C++ Programming
Modern C++ Programming Course
Modern-CPP-Programming is a teaching repository that introduces practical C++11/14/17 features through focused examples, exercises, and notes. It walks through core language topics like RAII, move semantics, templates and metaprogramming, lambdas, and smart pointers with an eye toward real-world patterns. Concurrency and performance enter the picture via threads, atomics, futures, and memory considerations, helping learners reason about correctness and speed. The materials highlight best practices—value semantics, const-correctness, and zero-cost abstractions—while cautioning against common pitfalls inherited from older C++ idioms. Build and tooling conventions (e.g., CMake, testing frameworks, static analyzers) are woven into examples so projects are reproducible and portable. By combining concise snippets with progressively more complex tasks, the repo serves as both a quick reference and a guided path to writing modern, maintainable C++. -
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Gleam
A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
Gleam's powerful static type system helps find and prevent bugs at compile time, long before it reaches your users. It also serves as a productive refactoring tool, enabling programmers to confidently make large changes to unfamiliar code, quickly and with low risk. For problems, the type system can't solve (such as your server being hit by a bolt of lightning) the Erlang virtual machine provides well-tested mechanisms for gracefully handling failure. Hunting down bugs can be stressful so Gleam's compiler provides clear and helpful feedback about any problems. We want to spend more time developing features and less time looking for bugs or deciphering cryptic error messages. Gleam builds on top of the Erlang virtual machine, a best-in-class runtime that has enabled companies such as Discord, Ericsson, Heroku, and WhatsApp to provide low-latency services at a global scale. Gleam takes full advantage of the Erlang runtime and adds no overhead of its own. -
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Ring Programming Language
Simple and flexible programming language for applications development
Simple and flexible programming language for applications development. Ring is a practical general-purpose multi-paradigm language. The supported programming paradigms are Imperative, Procedural, Object-Oriented, Functional, Metaprogramming, Declarative programming using nested structures, and Natural programming. The language is portable (MS-DOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, WebAssembly, etc.) and can be used to create Console, GUI, Web, Games, and Mobile applications. -
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HAXE
The cross-platform toolkit
Haxe is an open source high-level strictly-typed programming language with a fast optimizing cross-compiler. Haxe can build cross-platform applications targeting JavaScript, C++, C#, Java, JVM, Python, Lua, PHP, Flash, and allows access to each platform's native capabilities. Haxe has its own VMs (HashLink and NekoVM) but can also run in interpreted mode. Haxe is useful in a wide variety of domains; games, web, mobile, desktop, command-line and cross-platform APIs. Take a look at who is using Haxe and explore the use cases. Haxe is a reliable open source technology and is free to use. Become contributor on GitHub, join our community on our Discord chat and forum and find us on Facebook, Twitter and StackOverflow. Haxelib is the package manager for Haxe, which offers many free libraries powered by the Haxe community. Manage your project dependencies and distribute libraries. -
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YueScript
A Moonscript dialect compiles to Lua
A language that compiles to Lua. Yuescript is a Moonscript dialect. It is derived from Moonscript language 0.5.0 and continuously adopts new features to be more up-to-date. Moonscript is a language that compiles Lua. Since the original Moonscript has been used to write web framework lapis and run a few business websites like itch.io and streak.club with some large code bases. The original language is getting too hard to adopt new features for those that may break the stability of existing applications. So Yuescript is a new code base for pushing the language to go forward and being a playground to try introducing new language syntax or programming paradigms to make Moonscript language more expressive and productive. -
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GritQL
GritQL is a query language for searching, linting, and modifying code
GritQL is a query language designed to facilitate human-AI collaboration by providing an intuitive interface for querying and retrieving structured data. It acts as a bridge between AI models and databases, enabling natural language interaction with structured data sources. -
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RaptorJIT
A dynamic language for system programming (LuaJIT fork)
RaptorJIT is a Lua implementation suitable for high-performance low-level system programming. If you want to use a simple dynamic language to write a network stack; a hypervisor; a unikernel; a database; etc, then you have come to the right place.
