Scripting &amp; Interpreted Languages

27,965

4,535

$90M

Bun

Bun is a fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime and toolkit that includes a bundler, test runner, and Node.js-compatible package manager. It aims to run JavaScript and TypeScript at high performance using the JavaScriptCore engine, with built-in support for Web APIs, npm packages, and native ESM and CommonJS modules.

14,423

4,422

$77M

Deno

Deno is a secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that aims to be a modern and productive development environment. It provides built-in security features, supports TypeScript out of the box, has a comprehensive standard library, and includes integrated tooling like a dependency inspector and code formatter.

9,211

2,950

$35M

PowerShell

PowerShell is an open-source, cross-platform automation and configuration tool/framework that works well with existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data, REST APIs, and object models. It includes a command-line shell, an associated scripting language, and a framework for processing cmdlets.

9,208

1,500

$26M

Julia

The Julia Programming Language

8,465

1,739

$19M

Dart

Dart is a client-optimized programming language developed by Google for building fast apps on multiple platforms. It compiles to native code for mobile and desktop, and to JavaScript for the web.

7,823

1,529

$206M

HHVM

HHVM is a virtual machine and runtime environment for executing programs written in Hack and PHP. It was originally developed by Facebook as a high-performance alternative to the PHP engine, featuring a just-in-time compilation system to transform PHP and Hack code into optimized machine code.

6,338

1,164

$376M

PHP Interpreter

The PHP Interpreter is the official implementation of the PHP programming language, a widely-used server-side scripting language for web development. It processes PHP code and executes it to generate dynamic web content.

6,322

1,616

$83M

GraalJS

GraalJS is a high-performance JavaScript runtime implementation built on GraalVM that allows executing JavaScript code on the JVM. It provides full ECMAScript compliance, interoperability with Java, and the ability to run Node.js applications.

5,168

911

$463M

Ruby

Ruby is a dynamic, open-source programming language focused on simplicity and productivity. It features elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write, combining elements of functional and object-oriented programming.

3,659

1,051

$76M

Cinder

Cinder is Meta's internal performance-oriented production version of CPython.

3,658

677

$87M

CoffeeScript

CoffeeScript is a programming language that compiles into JavaScript, adding syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby and Python to enhance JavaScript's readability and expressiveness. It aims to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a cleaner syntax while maintaining full compatibility.

3,431

1,437

$4.8M

JRuby

JRuby is an implementation of the Ruby programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), allowing Ruby code to be executed in Java environments and seamlessly integrate with Java libraries and applications.

2,872

894

$39M

Perl

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted programming language that combines features from C, shell scripting, and other languages. It provides powerful text processing capabilities and is known for its flexibility in system administration, web development, network programming, and text manipulation tasks.

2,555

329

$57M

Pyodide

Pyodide is a Python distribution for the browser and Node.js based on WebAssembly

1,601

517

$3.2M

V8 JavaScript Engine

V8 is Google's high-performance open source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, written in C++. It implements ECMAScript and WebAssembly, and runs in Google Chrome, Node.js, and other applications. V8 compiles JavaScript directly to native machine code before executing it, using advanced optimization techniques to deliver high runtime performance.

1,254

118

$126M

mruby

mruby is a lightweight implementation of the Ruby programming language designed to be embedded into other applications. It provides a smaller, more resource-efficient alternative to the standard Ruby interpreter while maintaining compatibility with Ruby syntax and features.

986

282

$4.3M

Pharo

Pharo is a dynamic reflective pure object-oriented language supporting live programming inspired by Smalltalk.

902

107

$1.3M

Apache Groovy

Apache Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic programming language for the Java platform that offers a concise syntax, seamless Java integration, and modern programming features like closures and metaprogramming capabilities. It can be used as both a programming language and a scripting language for the Java Platform.

855

173

$18M

Espruino

The Espruino JavaScript interpreter - Official Repo

682

150

$46M

Rhino

Rhino is an open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java

649

159

$32M

PyPy

PyPy is a fast, compliant alternative implementation of the Python programming language written in Python itself. It features a Just-In-Time compiler and aims to provide better performance than CPython for many types of programs while maintaining maximum compatibility.

594

140

$78M

Red Programming Language

Red is a next-generation programming language strongly inspired by Rebol, but with a broader field of usage thanks to its native-code compiler, from system programming to high-level scripting and cross-platform reactive GUI, while providing modern support for concurrency, all in a zero-install, zero-config, single ~1MB file!

458

$7.6M

AnyIO

AnyIO is a high-level asynchronous I/O and networking library that provides a unified interface for working with different async backends (asyncio, trio) in Python. It enables writing backend-agnostic async code that can run on any supported event loop implementation.

371

153

$748K

Typing Extensions

A Python package that provides backports of new typing features from recent Python versions to older versions, enabling consistent use of type hints across different Python releases. It includes functionality like Protocol, TypedDict, and other typing-related features that may not be available in the standard typing module of earlier Python versions.

308

131