Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Alive - Live Programming for C# launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1AL
   A list of programmers coding live▲202

   2018 · shipstreams.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Fulvid▲86

   A standalone desktop editor for Markdown and MDX

   Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Continuous▲76

   Fast and powerful .NET C# and F# IDE for iOS

   2016 · praeclarum.org · its alternatives →

4. 4
   KORE.io▲88

   A fast SPDY capable web server for web development in C

   2015 · kore.io · its alternatives →

5. 5TC
   Try C# Live, Save to Gists and share IDE snapshots▲5

   2016 · gistlyn.com · its alternatives →

6. 6OA
   Online and open source low-code platform with live collaboration▲9

   2018 · icodebetter.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Maybe Haskell▲60

   See what it’s like to program in a language without null.

   2015 · books.thoughtbot.com · its alternatives →

8. 8SR
   Space Rock, a realtime JavaScript framework▲7

   2015 · space-rock.meteor.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Coderviews▲7

   A real-time, collaborative compiler.

   2017 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    I made an open-source Replit▲9

    I spent the past few weeks making an open source cloud code editing environment with an AI copilot and multiplayer collaboration! It's fully self-hostable in 5-10 minutes. There's a lot of minor improvements to be made, and some are already listed in the Github issues. Let me know what you think and feel free to try it out.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

11. 11AT
    A tool for making live-moddable games in Clojure▲6

    2014 · nightmod.net · its alternatives →

12. 12QT
    Quokka – The Live Scratchpad for JavaScript▲8

    2017 · medium.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    The Julia Language▲10

    A high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language

    2017 · julialang.org · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Nirvana, a WIP programming language▲8

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    It's a Live: Make live coding demos perfect by killing them▲8

    It's a live is a tool that helps you make live coding demos easier and more bulletproof by making them not-live.

    2020 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →

16. 16LP
    Literate Programming Implementation of the Promises/A+ Standard▲6

    2015 · thriqon.github.io · its alternatives →

17. 17PW
    Progressive Web App “An Easy Programming Language”▲5

    2018 · easyprog.app · its alternatives →

18. 18JM
    Jindo – minimalist reactive backend for JavaScript applications▲7

    2016 · jindo.io · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Project Jupyter▲9

    Live code notebook as an open source web app

    2016 · jupyter.org · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Pure JS live-editing for React▲6

    2014 · gaearon.github.io · its alternatives →

21. 21HB
    Hosted Blazor+Fusion sample (real-time WASM and .NET 5 app)▲5

    2020 · fusion-samples.servicetitan.com · its alternatives →

22. 22NN
    Nightcoders.net, a cloud IDE for ClojureScript▲7

    2017 · nightcoders.net · its alternatives →

23. 23
    GHEdit: web-based GitHub-integrated code editor forked from VS Code▲8

    2016 · spiffcode.github.io · its alternatives →

24. 24AA
    Awl, a toy Lisp language written in C and transpiled to JavaScript▲8

    2014 · skepsi.me · its alternatives →

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