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. Literate Programming Implementation of the Promises/A+ Standard launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Async Transducers with Promises▲5

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   The Pragmatic Programmer▲87

   Solid advice and awesome analogies

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Maybe Haskell▲60

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

   2015 · books.thoughtbot.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Programming Pearls▲71

   Clever solutions to classic programming problems

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

5. 5DS
   Damn simple and useful promise pool for Node.js▲5

   2020 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Code Podcast 3: Concurrency – Event Loop & Coroutines▲54

   Concurrency in UIKits, browsers and web servers

   2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Planning Extreme Programming▲55

   The XP process

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   A 12 line library for writing readable code with `await`▲6

   A javascript library for making await more functional - craigmichaelmartin/fawait

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Purely Functional Data Structures▲61

   A guide to functional programming

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10TC
    The C++ Iceberg▲7

    2022 · fouronnes.github.io · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Eloquent Javascript▲20

    A modern introduction to Javascript

    2014 · eloquentjavascript.net · its alternatives →

12. 12CF
    Codier – Front-End Coding Challenges and Creations▲6

    2018 · codier.io · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Nirvana, a WIP programming language▲8

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14CA
    Clause: an expressive JavaScript contract system, inspired by clojure.spec▲8

    2017 · clause.js.org · its alternatives →

15. 15
    And then...▲14

    A minimal CommonJS promises library with useful things like parallel execution, fulfilments and exception handling, while retaining the beautiful simplicity of .then(). - askabt/andthen

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

16. 16AA
    Awl, a toy Lisp language written in C and transpiled to JavaScript▲8

    2014 · skepsi.me · its alternatives →

17. 17TA
    tut, an open platform for programming tutorials▲8

    2013 · king-tutorial.com · its alternatives →

18. 18PM
    Practical Modern JavaScript▲7

    2017 · ponyfoo.com · its alternatives →

19. 19FP
    Functional Programming Strategies, the book I'm working on▲5

    Jul 2026 · functionalprogrammingstrategies.com · its alternatives →

20. 20SR
    Space Rock, a realtime JavaScript framework▲7

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

21. 21CO
    Coast on Clojure: A full stack framework with a catchy name▲8

    2017 · medium.com · its alternatives →

22. 22DE
    Dawn – easily annotate code▲8

    2016 · dawn.io · its alternatives →

23. 23SA
    SOSML – An online interpreter for SML▲6

    2019 · sosml.discourse.ps.uni-saarland.de · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Promisees▲4

    Promise visualization playground for the adventurous

    2015 · bevacqua.github.io · its alternatives →

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