Open-source programming-language software
469 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged programming-language, ranked by how closely programming-language is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
469 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| remacs/remacs Remacs is a community-driven port of GNU Emacs to Rust, replacing parts of the C codebase with Rust implementations while remaining compati… | 32 | 4608 | abandoned |
| colesbury/nogil A proof-of-concept fork of CPython that removes the global interpreter lock (GIL) to enable true multithreaded Python execution. Developmen… | 10 | 2910 | abandoned |
| gopher-os/gopher-os A proof-of-concept 64-bit OS kernel written in Go, aiming for POSIX compliance and Linux-compatible syscalls. It exists to demonstrate that… | 32 | 2627 | abandoned |
| pixie-lang/pixie Pixie is a small, fast, native Lisp language with its own virtual machine, written in RPython and featuring a tracing JIT, immutable data s… | 23 | 2357 | abandoned |
| move-language/move The original home of the Move programming language, a Rust-based language and toolchain for safe smart-contract development on blockchains.… | 10 | 2328 | abandoned |
| fsharp/fsharp The historical repository for alternative packagings of the F# compiler, F# Interactive (fsi), and FSharp.Core, distributed via the FSharp.… | 10 | 2156 | abandoned |
| unofficial-openjdk/openjdk An automated read-only Git mirror of various OpenJDK branches, not intended for contributions. The repository is no longer actively updated… | 32 | 2128 | abandoned |
| lattera/glibc A mirror of the GNU C Library (glibc), the standard C library providing the system API for C and C-compatible programs on GNU/Linux and GNU… | 10 | 1969 | abandoned |
| ayojs/ayo Ayo.js is a fork of Node.js, a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 engine with event-driven, non-blocking I/O. It was a community-drive… | 10 | 1645 | abandoned |
| oxfeeefeee/goscript Goscript is an alternative implementation of the Go language specification written in Rust, designed as an embeddable scripting language fo… | 56 | 1544 | abandoned |
| tdenniston/bish Bish is a lightweight programming language with modern syntax that compiles down to Bash, making shell scripts more comfortable to write wh… | 32 | 1489 | abandoned |
| owenthereal/godzilla Godzilla is an ES2015-to-Go source code transpiler and runtime intended as a near drop-in replacement for Node.js. It compiles JavaScript t… | 32 | 1475 | abandoned |
| valderman/haste-compiler Haste is a GHC-based compiler that translates Haskell programs into JavaScript, supporting most GHC extensions and standard Haskell librari… | 23 | 1473 | abandoned |
| JSX JSX is a statically-typed, class-based programming language developed at DeNA that compiles to JavaScript, aiming to be faster, safer, and … | 32 | 1471 | abandoned |
| ink! ink! is a Rust-based embedded domain-specific language (eDSL) for writing smart contracts that run on Polkadot SDK-based blockchains via th… | 64 | 1454 | abandoned |
| SaptakBhoumik/Peregrine Peregrine is a compiled systems programming language written in C++ that aims to combine Python-like syntax with C-like performance, compil… | 32 | 1434 | abandoned |
| alongubkin/spider Spider is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript (ES5 and ES6), combining ideas from Go, Swift, Python, C#, and CoffeeScript. I… | 32 | 1325 | abandoned |
| faylang/fay Fay is a statically typed, lazy, purely functional proper subset of Haskell that compiles to JavaScript. It offers a trivial JavaScript FFI… | 32 | 1285 | abandoned |
| google/schism Schism is an experimental self-hosting compiler that compiles a subset of R6RS Scheme to WebAssembly, allowing Scheme programs to run in br… | 10 | 1276 | abandoned |
| go-llvm/llgo llgo is a Go compiler frontend built on LLVM, written in Go, aiming for gccgo-compatible command-line behavior. The project has moved to ll… | 10 | 1250 | abandoned |
| ReadyTalk/avian Avian is a lightweight Java virtual machine and class library written in C++ that provides a useful subset of Java's features, including JI… | 32 | 1238 | abandoned |
| albrow/fo Fo (Functional Go) is an experimental programming language that extends Go with generics, including generic named types, functions, and met… | 10 | 1223 | abandoned |
| eholk/harlan Harlan is a small domain-specific language implemented in Scheme for programming GPUs, compiled to OpenCL. It serves primarily as a researc… | 32 | 1191 | abandoned |
| mbebenita/LLJS LLJS is a typed dialect of JavaScript with a C-like type system and manual memory management, compiled to plain JavaScript via the ljc comp… | 32 | 1177 | abandoned |
| wende/elchemy Elchemy is a transpiler that lets you write Elixir code using Elm's statically-typed syntax, compiling to idiomatic, readable Elixir that r… | 10 | 1150 | abandoned |
| mkottman/AndroLua An Android app that ports the Lua interpreter and LuaJava to Android, letting you execute Lua code that can access the Android API. It also… | 32 | 1113 | abandoned |
| archseer/enigma Enigma is an implementation of the Erlang VM (BEAM) written in Rust, aiming to run OTP 22+ and Elixir code unchanged. It is a learning-orie… | 32 | 1093 | abandoned |
| nifanfa/MOOS MOOS is a hobby x64 operating system written in C# using .NET Native AOT compilation. It supports multithreading, SMP, USB, networking, and… | 10 | 1092 | abandoned |
| GaloisInc/HaLVM The Haskell Lightweight Virtual Machine (HaLVM) is a port of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler toolchain that lets developers write Haskell prog… | 10 | 1069 | abandoned |
| kitlang/kit Kit is a statically typed programming language that compiles to C, offering modern features like type inference, algebraic data types, patt… | 32 | 1033 | abandoned |
| nathansobo/treetop Treetop is a Ruby DSL for building parsers based on parsing expression grammars (PEGs). This original repository is unmaintained and develo… | 32 | 1010 | abandoned |
| topazproject/topaz Topaz is an implementation of the Ruby programming language written in Python using the RPython toolchain from PyPy. It compiles to a nativ… | 32 | 1007 | abandoned |
| openjdk/jdk The main-line development repository for the OpenJDK, the open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition. It contains th… | 77 | 23443 | active |
| .NET Runtime The official .NET runtime, base class libraries, and shared host source repository maintained by Microsoft and the .NET Foundation. It prov… | 100 | 18367 | stable |
| Blockly Blockly is a JavaScript library that adds a customizable, drag-and-drop visual programming editor to web apps, representing code concepts a… | 96 | 13572 | stable |
| Pkl Pkl is a configuration-as-code language from Apple with rich validation, templating, and tooling for defining programmable, scalable, and s… | 85 | 11542 | active |
| mxgmn/MarkovJunior MarkovJunior is a probabilistic programming language based on rewrite rules and constraint propagation, implemented in C#. It ships with an… | 52 | 8197 | active |
| EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu rust-gpu is a compiler toolchain that makes Rust a first-class language for writing GPU graphics and compute shaders, compiling Rust code t… | 10 | 7557 | active |
| Ren'Py Ren'Py is an open-source visual novel engine that lets creators build interactive stories using words, images, and sounds, combining an eas… | 92 | 6904 | active |
| klange/toaruos ToaruOS is a complete, independent hobby operating system for x86-64 PCs and ARMv8 VM environments, built entirely from original code with … | 92 | 6863 | active |
| halide/Halide Halide is an embedded DSL (in C++ and Python) for writing high-performance, data-parallel image and array processing pipelines. It separate… | 68 | 6620 | stable |
| brython-dev/brython Brython is an implementation of Python 3 that runs entirely in the web browser, loaded as a JavaScript file and executing Python code embed… | 88 | 6609 | active |
| MontFerret/ferret Ferret is a declarative, expression-oriented query language (FQL) with an embeddable Go runtime for querying, transforming, and automating … | 79 | 6013 | active |
| AidLux (AidLearning) AidLux (originally AidLearning) is an AIoT development platform that runs a native Ubuntu Linux environment with GUI, deep learning tooling… | 63 | 5812 | active |
| ohmjs/ohm Ohm is a parsing toolkit consisting of a JavaScript library and a domain-specific language based on parsing expression grammars (PEGs). It … | 74 | 5550 | active |
| google/wuffs Wuffs is a memory-safe programming language plus a standard library for safely parsing, decoding and encoding untrusted file formats such a… | 76 | 4851 | active |
| SPLWare/esProc esProc SPL is a JVM-based scripting language for structured data computation, usable as a standalone data analysis tool or embedded computi… | 77 | 4676 | active |
| Urbit Urbit is a personal server stack built from scratch, consisting of an operating system kernel (Arvo), a virtual machine runtime (Vere), and… | 95 | 3620 | active |
| OpenGOAL OpenGOAL is a project that decompiles the Jak & Daxter PS2 games and recompiles them into native x86-64 ports, including a from-scratch imp… | 100 | 3574 | active |
| grain-lang/grain Grain is a strongly-typed functional programming language that compiles to WebAssembly, together with its compiler toolchain and CLI. It ai… | 85 | 3468 | active |
| teal-language/tl tl is the compiler and type checker for Teal, a statically-typed dialect of Lua that adds type annotations, generics, and records while com… | 74 | 2829 | active |
| learnhouse/learnhouse LearnHouse is a next-generation open-source learning management system (LMS) for creating, sharing, and selling educational content. It com… | 100 | 2404 | active |
| cappuccino/cappuccino Cappuccino is an open-source web application framework that lets developers build desktop-class applications in the browser using Objective… | 76 | 2267 | active |
| typedgrammar/typed-japanese Typed Japanese is a TypeScript type-level library that encodes Japanese grammar rules as a DSL, letting users write and verify grammaticall… | 56 | 1945 | active |
| Liquidsoap Liquidsoap is a statically typed scripting language and runtime for building audio and video stream generators, widely used for internet ra… | 95 | 1736 | stable |
| vygr/ChrysaLisp ChrysaLisp is a 64-bit parallel operating system environment featuring a virtual processor, GUI, terminal, OO assembler, C-Script compiler,… | 98 | 1695 | active |
| Tensegritics/ClojureDart ClojureDart is a Clojure dialect that compiles to Dart, enabling native mobile and desktop apps built with Flutter. It is production-ready … | 96 | 1646 | active |
| digego/extempore Extempore is a live-coding environment for music and audio that pairs a Scheme interpreter with xtlang, a statically-typed lisp compiled to… | 97 | 1465 | active |
| Water-Melon/Melon Melon is a generic cross-platform C library (C99) bundling algorithms, data structures, functional components (memory pool, thread pool, ev… | 67 | 1458 | active |
| hazelgrove/hazel Hazel is a web-based live functional programming environment for an Elm/ML-like language built around typed holes, allowing typechecking, e… | 68 | 1162 | active |
| nevalang/neva Neva is a statically typed, compiled dataflow programming language where programs are expressed as message-passing graphs that run in paral… | 92 | 1082 | active |
| Frege Frege is a purely functional programming language for the JVM that is essentially Haskell, featuring a strong static type system with globa… | 61 | 3712 | maintenance |
| LuisaGroup/LuisaCompute LuisaCompute is a high-performance cross-platform computing framework for graphics and beyond, featuring a C++-embedded DSL for GPU kernel … | 77 | 1055 | active |
| dogescript/dogescript Dogescript is a joke compile-to-JavaScript programming language with doge-meme syntax, distributed as an npm package. It ships a CLI compil… | 36 | 1334 | maintenance |
| VPanjeta/ModiScript ModiScript is an esoteric, dynamically typed, Turing-complete programming language built in Python whose keywords are quotes and phrases as… | 32 | 1037 | maintenance |
| BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6 A recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 IDE and language written in C# using the Avalonia UI framework. It supports a visual designer, V… | 13 | 1596 | experimental |
| eval-exec/neomacs Neomacs is a work-in-progress rewrite of GNU Emacs in Rust with a GPU-accelerated display engine (wgpu), aiming for 100% Emacs/Elisp compat… | 82 | 1579 | experimental |
| microsoft/TouchDevelop TouchDevelop is a touch-friendly, mobile-first app creation environment from Microsoft Research, including a browser-based editor, compiler… | 10 | 1360 | abandoned |
| YodaOS YodaOS is a Linux distribution built on OpenWrt for voice-enabled IoT devices, using JavaScript as its primary application language. It tar… | 32 | 1227 | abandoned |
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