10 alternatives to cpython

python/cpython — The Python programming language (77,824 stars, GPL-3.0, database, integration, files).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It does not serve code from python/cpython itself (licence class: strong-copyleft), so these alternatives are the licence-cleared route.

The alternatives in detail

• golang/go
  The Go programming language
  score 6.6/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 139,379 stars · 3,001 components · search them · alternatives
• psycopg/psycopg
  New generation PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming language
  score 8.0/10 · LGPL-3.0 weak-copyleft · 2,516 stars · 102 components · search them
• swiftlang/swift
  The Swift Programming Language
  score 3.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 70,515 stars · 3,009 components · search them · alternatives
• unisonweb/unison
  A friendly programming language from the future
  score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 6,771 stars · 46 components · search them
• bluenviron/gortsplib
  RTSP client and server library for the Go programming language
  score 7.0/10 · MIT permissive · 943 stars · 138 components · search them
• foundationagents/metagpt
  🌟 The Multi-Agent Framework: First AI Software Company, Towards Natural Language Programming
  score 6.3/10 · MIT permissive · 70,996 stars · 454 components · search them · alternatives
• facebook/pyrefly
  A fast type checker and language server for Python
  score 6.2/10 · MIT permissive · 7,172 stars · 607 components · search them
• auth0/go-jwt-middleware
  A Middleware for Go Programming Language to check for JWTs on HTTP requests
  score 5.0/10 · MIT permissive · 1,210 stars · 31 components · search them
• mystenlabs/sui
  Sui, a next-generation smart contract platform with high throughput, low latency, and an asset-oriented programming model powered by the Move programming language
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 7,783 stars · 2,950 components · search them
• agda/agda
  Agda is a dependently typed programming language / interactive theorem prover.
  score 4.5/10 · MIT permissive · 2,965 stars · 6 components · search them

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