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. Toy-lang, Toy programming language created in under 2 weeks launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week▲1,079

   2019 · s-poony.github.io · its alternatives →

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   Passambler: A toy language I made in Java over the course of 4 months▲5

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Cubetto▲114

   A hands-on programming language for kids aged 3 and up.

   2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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   Building a Programming Language for Kids▲9

   2022 · revine.arpitbhayani.me · its alternatives →

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   Toy – A thin C++ game engine▲180

   toy is a thin and modular c++ game engine that also runs on the web.

   2018 · hugoam.github.io · its alternatives →

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   Kamibot▲109

   A robot that teaches your kids to code

   2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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   I have written a toy language in JavaScript▲10

   Toy programming language written in javascript. Contribute to Alexander-0x80/Emesh development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   ScratchJr▲98

   Coding for young children

   2014 · scratchjr.org · its alternatives →

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   Locomogo▲79

   A toy train to teach coding to kids, grows with the kids

   2022 · its alternatives →

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    Truck▲74

    Dynamic toy programming language with a focus on simplicity

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Codie (pre-launch)▲91

    A robot that helps kids learn coding

    2015 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a toy music controller for my 5yo with a coding agent▲37

    The HN community may find the context of the prompts, organized by each turn in each session, the most useful. See the website/docs/prompts.md and session-X.md files. I also started exploring some workflows for the LLM to execute, organized in the website/docs/tasks/ folder. I found it pretty handy to have the LLM document our work as we went and simply embedded the static site into the executable, along with all the music and logic. The whole project took me about a day for the backend. The C++ controller itself took only a few turns. I enjoyed focusing on my son's…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Allusionist - Toki Pona▲56

    A language with only 123 words is surprisingly hard

    2015 · overcast.fm · its alternatives →

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    Hopscotch▲51

    Visual programming language for kids

    2014 · gethopscotch.com · its alternatives →

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    Playground for OpenAI Function Calling▲51

    Hey everyone, I'm Petr. I'm excited to share LangTale Playground (https://langtale.ai/playground), a first-of-its-kind tool enabling anyone to experiment with OpenAI function calls without coding. Born out of a hackathon project, it's now a part of our broader LangTale platform aimed at tackling common developer challenges with Language Learning Models (LLM). These include prompt integration, testing and debugging, version control, auditing, and usage/cost management. Here's our tech stack: Next.js by Vercel, Tailwind CSS, OpenAI, PlanetScale's Vitess database, and the…

    2023 · langtale.ai · its alternatives →

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    A few small games not only for kids (made with my programming language)▲9

    learning games for kids

    2024 · easygames.online · its alternatives →

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    A toy interpreter for a minimalistic imperative language in 1.3k LoC▲17

    A hackable and extensible lexer, parser and interpreter for a minimalistic, imperative, C-like language. - bbu/simple-interpreter

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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

    2014 · skepsi.me · its alternatives →

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    Toyno▲14

    Toys for grown ups.

    2015 · toyno.com · its alternatives →

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    Code-a-Pillar▲6

    Toy caterpillar to teach toddlers how to code.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    I made a (terrible) programming language▲9

    A mildly interesting programming language named after a meme.

    2015 · jsnider3.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Nirvana, a WIP programming language▲8

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Ten – A Tiny Scripting Language▲8

    2019 · ten-lang.io · its alternatives →

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    Code▲6

    Multi-language programming playground

    2019 · its alternatives →

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