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24 alternatives to Nymph, a C like programming language

🧚 A slightly different version of C. Contribute to maelswarm/nymph development by creating an account on GitHub.

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

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   Nymph – A slightly different version of C▲73

   🧚 A slightly different version of C. Contribute to maelswarm/nymph development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Nymph – A PHP and JavaScript ORM▲5

   (Deprecated) Data objects for JavaScript and PHP. Contribute to sciactive/nymph development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   C3 – A C alternative that looks like C▲120

   Compiler for the C3 language. Contribute to c3lang/c3c development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   A small virtual machine written in C▲212

   "interesting" VM in C. Let's see how this goes. Contribute to tekknolagi/carp development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   forthy2 – a higher level Forth-remix in C++▲65

   a Forth (for you) too. Contribute to codr7/forthy2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   GitHub City▲249

   Create a 3D city from your GitHub contributions

   2022 · honzaap.github.io · its alternatives →

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   A work-in-progress C compiler from scratch▲159

   Programming language that compiles into a x86 ELF executable. - riicchhaarrd/ocean

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   First embeddable script language/VM in C i made▲8

   Contribute to riicchhaarrd/deprecated-cgsc development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Announcing Strange Forth▲7

   An implementation of Forth in C++ 20. Contribute to cstrainge/sorth development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tiny – An interpeted dynamic langauge with inline Go native functions▲41

    A lightweight programming language built with Go. Contribute to confh/Tiny development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GitHub Windows Edition – a bit of nostalgia inspired by a Twitter post▲6

    (UserStyle) GitHub Windows Edition [MIT]. Contribute to Athari/CssGitHubWindows development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    C Style - my favorite C programming practices▲5

    My favorite C programming practices. Contribute to mcinglis/c-style development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    MiniForth – A Minimal Forth▲6

    A minimal Forth Interpreter. Contribute to davidjade/MiniForth development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I wrote my own programming language to solve leetcode▲9

    The Roman II Programming Language. Contribute to glouw/rr development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Minimalistic “Fork Me on GitHub.”▲9

    Minimalistic "Fork me on GitHub". Contribute to muhammadmuzzammil1998/OctoCSS development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Dynamic CSS Compiler for WordPress▲8

    Dynamic CSS compiler for WordPress. Contribute to askupasoftware/wp-dynamic-css development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Libtwiddle – bit and sketches data structures▲6

    bit & sketches data structures. Contribute to fsaintjacques/libtwiddle development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Super Tiny Compiler, in Go▲6

    Like The Super Tiny Compiler, but in Go. Contribute to hazbo/the-super-tiny-compiler development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Untree: like gron but generalised on indentation▲9

    like gron, but generalised on indentation. Contribute to sentriz/untree development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Julia Language▲6

    The Julia Programming Language. Contribute to JuliaLang/julia development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    MiniLang▲8

    A compiled type-safe C successor

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A linter for MySQL▲9

    An SQL linter. Contribute to joereynolds/sql-lint development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    VersionDB – A key, value store inspired by Git▲9

    A versioned database inspired by Git. Contribute to josephsweeney/versionDB development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Gity – A nice Git wrapper for Node▲7

    Git wrapper for Node. Contribute to stevenmiller888/gity development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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