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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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ZIG
General-purpose programming language and toolchain
A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software. -
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Crafting Interpreters
Repository for the book "Crafting Interpreters"
This repository is the companion to the book Crafting Interpreters. It contains the full source code for two interpreters (one in C and one in Java), the Markdown source of the book, the tooling to weave prose and code into a website, and build scripts to generate the executable interpreters. The book aims to teach from the ground up how to build a full-featured scripting language (called Lox) with parsing, AST, compiler / VM, garbage collection, classes, and more. Static site generator tooling to compose book + code into HTML. Markdown source of book chapters and text prose. Full interpreter implementation in C (clox). -
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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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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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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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Lombok
New additions to the Java programming language
Project Lombok is a java library that automatically plugs into your editor and build tools, spicing up your java. Never write another getter or equals method again, with one annotation your class has a fully featured builder, Automate your logging variables, and much more. Project Lombok is available as a single jar file on the project site. It includes the APIs for development as an installer for IDE integration. On most systems, simply double-clicking the jar file will launch the installer. The installer will attempt to detect the location of a supported IDE. If it cannot correctly determine where the IDE is installed, the location can be specified manually. Simply click "Install/Update," and IDE integration is complete. There are a number of annotations in Project Lombok to allow for more fine grained control over the structure and behavior of a class. -
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Ruby
Ruby programming language
A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write. Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming. He has often said that he is “trying to make Ruby natural, not simple,” in a way that mirrors life. Since its public release in 1995, Ruby has drawn devoted coders worldwide. In 2006, Ruby achieved mass acceptance. With active user groups formed in the world’s major cities and Ruby-related conferences filled to capacity. Ruby-Talk, the primary mailing list for discussion of the Ruby language, climbed to an average of 200 messages per day in 2006. It has dropped in recent years as the size of the community pushed discussion from one central list into many smaller groups.
