Swift Alternatives

A general purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language. Objective-C was specifically designed for the Apple ecosystem and their respective application programming interfaces, Cocoa and Cocoa Touch for building applications for macOS and iOS. Since 2014 the Apple ecosystem rely on their new programming language Swift.

At Google I/O 2017, Kotlin was announced as to official development and programming language for Android. As it became the third language to be fully supported by the platform with Java and C++. However, Kotlin can also be used cross-paltform for native, server-side and web development as well as for data science projects. The language is statically typed and general-purpose, and is designed from the bottom up to increase developer happiness. 

Raku is a programming language that intends to carry forward the ideals of the Perl community. The project was formerly known as Perl 6 and was renamed to Raku as of October 2019. Raku introduces many modern concepts to the historical language while keeping Perl compatibility mode as a part of the specification. Raku is developed by an enthusiastic community of volunteers, that strive to push the language forward.

Racket started its life as a Scheme implementation, but has now grown into a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language and the world's first ecosystem for language-oriented programming. Racket designed to be a platform for programming language design and implementation where developers can create their own dream language.

A family of programming languages dating back to 1958. Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today.

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A free and open object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code. Vala uses the GObject system and is syntactically similar to C# while introducing unique features like functions, signals, properties, generics, assisted memory management, exception handling, type inference, and foreach statements. Vala makes it simple to target the GNOME stack and is also used for writing applications to the operating system elementary OS.

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Haxe is an open-source, high-level, cross-platform, multi-paradigm programming language and compiler. Haxe allows developers to build applications with a single code-base, that can be utilized on many different platforms. The compilers allow developers to build games, web, mobile, desktop, command-line and cross-platform APIs targeting JavaScript, C++, C#, Java, JVM, Python, Lua, PHP, Flash. Haxe is developed and managed by the Haxe Foundation and released fully free and open-source under the MIT license.

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