Best Open Source Windows Programming Languages 2026

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CLIPS Rule Based Programming Language

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CLIPS is a forward-chaining rule-based programming language written in C that also provides procedural and object-oriented programming facilities.

31 Reviews

Downloads: 456 This Week

Last Update: 8 hours ago
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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.

4 Reviews

Downloads: 82 This Week

Last Update: 2024-09-30
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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.

Downloads: 66 This Week

Last Update: 2026-06-15
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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.

1 Review

Downloads: 43 This Week

Last Update: 4 days ago
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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.

Downloads: 40 This Week

Last Update: 2 days ago
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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.

Downloads: 28 This Week

Last Update: 2 days ago
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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.

4 Reviews

Downloads: 21 This Week

Last Update: 2026-06-23
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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).

Downloads: 16 This Week

Last Update: 2025-09-26
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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.

Downloads: 16 This Week

Last Update: 2025-12-13
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php-src

The PHP Interpreter

This is the official source repository of PHP, a popular open-source server-side scripting language primarily used for web development. PHP powers a significant portion of the web, including platforms like WordPress, Drupal, and Laravel. The repository includes the core language engine, standard libraries, and tools for compilation and deployment across systems.

Downloads: 16 This Week

Last Update: 4 days ago
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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.

Downloads: 13 This Week

Last Update: 2025-08-07
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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.

Downloads: 9 This Week

Last Update: 2026-03-02
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Solidity

The Smart Contract Programming Language

Solidity is a statically-typed curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contracts that run on Ethereum. Solidity 0.8.4 adds custom structured errors, allows more flexible configuration of the SMTChecker and fixes a bug in the Solidity ABI decoder v2. Read more about the bug here. With v0.8.4, errors can be defined inside and outside of contracts (including interfaces and libraries). This provides a convenient and gas-efficient way to explain to users why an operation failed. As a relatively young language, Solidity is advancing at a rapid speed. We aim for a regular (non-breaking) release every 2-3 weeks, with approximately two breaking releases per year. You can follow the implementation status of new features in the Solidity Github project. You can see the upcoming changes for the next breaking release by switching from the default branch (develop) to the breaking branch.

Downloads: 9 This Week

Last Update: 2026-04-29
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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.

Downloads: 9 This Week

Last Update: 2026-04-17
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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.

Downloads: 8 This Week

Last Update: 5 days ago
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ZPLDesigner

A Zebra Programming Language (ZPL) IDE with embedded viewer

ZPLDesigner is a free and easy-to-use software utility that allows you to create, preview and print label based on Zebra Programming Language (ZPL). ZPL commands ZPL Designer can help you to write ZPL code. The left panel provides a list of the main ZPL commands used to design a label. By hovering the mouse pointer over the desired ZPL command, a detailled description will be displayed on the top "Help" panel. Clicking on it will add this command to the ZPL editor. ZPL Viewer By pressing F5 or clicking on Preview button, ZPL Designer will display the result of you ZPL code on a Preview tab. You will be able to zoom/unzoom, rotate or save the generated label as an image. You can choose how to render your ZPL code: a local Zebra printer or by using the labelary.com webservice. An industrial ZPL printer with embedded website and network is required when you choose to use "Local Zebra Printer" as renderer.

3 Reviews

Downloads: 53 This Week

Last Update: 2026-03-11
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Agena

Agena is an interpreted procedural programming language.

Agena is an easy-to-learn procedural programming language designed for science, scripting, and many other applications. Binaries are available for Windows, Linux, Solaris, OS/2, Mac OS X, Raspberry Pi and DOS.

1 Review

Downloads: 103 This Week

Last Update: 52 minutes ago
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V Programming Language

Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing software

Simple language for building maintainable programs. You can learn the entire language by going through the documentation over a weekend, and in most cases, there's only one way to do something. This results in simple, readable, and maintainable code. Despite being simple, V gives a lot of power to the developer and can be used in pretty much every field, including systems programming, webdev, gamedev, GUI, mobile, science, embedded, tooling, etc. V avoids doing unnecessary allocations in the first place by using value types, and string buffers, promoting a simple abstraction-free code style. Most objects (~90-100%) are freed by V's auto-free engine: the compiler inserts necessary free calls automatically during compilation. A remaining small percentage of objects is freed via GC. The developer doesn't need to change anything in their code. "It just works", like in Python, Go, or Java, except there's no heavy GC tracing everything or expensive RC for each object.

Downloads: 6 This Week

Last Update: 2026-03-09
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X11-Basic

A BASIC interpreter and compiler with graphics.

X11-Basic is a dialect of the BASIC programming language with graphics capability that integrates features like shell scripting, cgi-Programming and full graphical visualisation into the easy to learn basic language on modern computers.

4 Reviews

Downloads: 35 This Week

Last Update: 2022-08-18
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R Source

Read-only mirror of R source code

The wch/r-source repository is a read-only mirror of the official R language source code, maintained to reflect the upstream Subversion (SVN) R core development tree. This mirror provides public visibility into R’s internals—everything from the interpreter, base and recommended packages, documentation, and C/Fortran code under the hood. It is updated hourly to stay in sync with the upstream SVN. Although it mirrors the R source for browsing and reference, it is not the “canonical development repo* (i.e. you can’t submit pull requests via that mirror). The repository includes build instructions, the full directory structure (src, src/library, doc, etc.), licensing information (GPL-2.0), and documentation. Developers, package authors, and curious users often browse this mirror to inspect implementation details, debug issues, or see how base functions are implemented in C or Fortran.

Downloads: 5 This Week

Last Update: 2026-06-26
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Rust Programming Language

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software

The Rust Programming Language is a language that empowers you to build reliable and efficient software. It runs blazingly fast and is memory-efficient, so it can power performance-critical services and run on embedded devices. It has a rich type system and ownership model, ensuring both thread and memory safety. Consisting of a standard library, great documentation and a friendly compiler, plus a top-notch build tool, package manager, auto-formatter and many other great tools, it’s the language of choice for increased productivity. Hundreds of companies the world over are using Rust to power an amazing range of cross-platform solutions. See what a great fit Rust can be for your own projects!

Downloads: 5 This Week

Last Update: 2026-05-28
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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.

Downloads: 5 This Week

Last Update: 2025-08-29
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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.

Downloads: 4 This Week

Last Update: 2026-04-11
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Seed7

Interpreter and compiler for the Seed7 programming language.

Interpreter, compiler, libraries, documentation and examples for the Seed7 programming language. Seed7 is a general purpose programming language. It is a higher level language compared to Ada, C/C++ and Java. In Seed7 new statements and operators can be declared easily. Functions with type results and type parameters are more elegant than a template or generics concept. Object orientation is used where it brings advantages and not in places where other solutions are more obvious. Seed7 spares no effort to support portable programming. Several driver libraries assure that the access to operating system resources such as files, directories, network, clock, keyboard, console and graphics are done in a portable way. Although Seed7 contains several concepts from other programming languages, it is generally not considered a direct descendant of any other programming language.

7 Reviews

Downloads: 21 This Week

Last Update: 2026-04-13
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The Squirrel programming language

Squirrel is a light weight programming language featuring higher-order functions,classes/inheritance,delegation,tail recursion,generators,cooperative threads,exception handling, reference counting and garbage collection on demand. C-like syntax.

2 Reviews

Downloads: 34 This Week

Last Update: 2022-02-10
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