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24 alternatives to Darklang

Holistic language, editor, and infra for building backends

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Darklang launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Darklang▲326

    2019 · medium.com · its alternatives →

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    Cooklang is a markup language for recipes.

    2021 · cooklang.org · its alternatives →

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    uilang▲280

    A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AntiLang is an interpreted programming language written in Go. The basic idea of this is to keep all the logical parts of a language same, but reverse the structure of it. The idea for this project came when I was having a long midnight conversation with my friend and thought of writing such a weird language. The initial draft was far worse than the current implementation; we thought of reversing the brackets and the language would be read from bottom to top. I'm happy that I dropped that idea Technical details: As the interpreter is written in Golang, I compiled it to WASM, and the whole…

    2025 · siruscodes.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Treeline▲486

    Build a backend without writing code

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Cannoli Programming Language. Contribute to joncatanio/cannoli development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A backend independent visual composer for web. Contribute to DivineITLimited/hyper-editor development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi There, Erlang-RED has been my project for the last couple of months and I would love to get some feedback from the HN community. The idea is to take advantage of Erlangs message passing and low overhead processes to have true concurrency in Node-RED flows. Plus also to bring low-code visual flow-based programming to Erlang.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans. - ueberdosis/tiptap

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build scalable apps at lightning speed, coding optional

    2023 · backendless.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi. I made Easylang to help beginners get started with programming. It is open source. https://github.com/chkas/easylang Why I think Easylang is for beginners better than Python. https://easylang.online/blog/easyl_pyth.html UPDATE: The posted link goes directly to the beginner tutorial. This is the start page of the IDE. https://easylang.online/ide/

    2022 · easylang.online · its alternatives →

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    i made an esoteric programming language which i call spellscript. every program is a "spell" written in a "grimoire," and you have to use keywords like summon, enchant, inscribe, and conjure. it's literally read like a spellbook because the syntax consists of all natural language, and newlines are optional. your code can now be an essay, like everybody wants! for example, if you want to print something, you'd write: `begin the grimoire. inscribe whispers of "hello, world!". close the grimoire.` it has variables, dynamic typing, arrays, functions, conditionals, loops, string manipulation,…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Ollang DX▲164

    The AI Language Execution Layer for Enterprise

    Mar 2026 · ollang.com · its alternatives →

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    I originally planned to release RinohType into wild only after I had finished a full review, refactoring and documenting of the code. I also wanted to write some API documentation and a small tutorial, all in the spirit of making a good first impression. Turns out all this takes a ...

    2013 · mos6581.org · its alternatives →

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    The future of no-code backend development

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    A minimalist type-inferred programming language with procedural macro support - murisi/L2

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This absurd project started when I read a couple of blog posts that got very popular around here about solving the N queens puzzle using only Haskell's type system and TypeScript's type system. I figured I could implement Peano arithmetic using only TypeScript's type system. Turns out this have been done several times before, but I did it anyway. While working on it, I realized that you could emulate functions with conditional recursive types, writing them in a way that strongly resembles the equations that can be found in some functional programming languages. So I thought I could write a…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Bolt is a language with in-built data-race freedom! - mukul-rathi/bolt

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    CodeSmash▲105

    Build custom backends with no code

    2023 · codesmash.studio · its alternatives →

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    Erlang REST framework. Contribute to fbeline/rooster development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    No-code AI-powered APIs in seconds

    2023 · cto.new · its alternatives →

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

    2015 · books.thoughtbot.com · its alternatives →

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    How does Loreline work under the hood? This article provides some answers.

    Mar 2026 · loreline.app · its alternatives →

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