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This page lists notable software that can be classified as a compiler, a compiler generator, an interpreter, translator, a tool foundation, an assembler,an automatable command line interface (shell), or similar.
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Compiler | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type |
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PTC ObjectAda[ citation needed ] | PTC, Inc. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary |
GCC (GNAT) | GNU Project | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPLv3+ |
GNAT LLVM[ citation needed ] | AdaCore | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPLv3+ |
GreenHills Ada Optimizing Compiler[ citation needed ] | Green Hills Software | Yes | Yes | No | Proprietary |
PTC ApexAda[ citation needed ] | PTC, Inc. | No | Yes | Yes | Proprietary |
SCORE Ada[ citation needed ] | DDC-I | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary |
Symbolics Ada[ citation needed ] | Symbolics | No | No | Symbolics Genera | Proprietary |
Tandem Ada [1] | Tandem Computers | No | Yes | Guardian, NonStop Kernel | Proprietary |
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Compiler | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type |
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ALGOL 60 | RHA (Minisystems) Ltd | No | No | DOS, CP/M | Free for personal use |
ALGOL 60 (Whetstone)[ citation needed ] | Randell and Russell | No | No | KDF9 | Unknown |
ALGOL 60 (Kidsgrove)[ citation needed ] | Hawkins and Huxtable | No | No | KDF9 | Unknown |
Persistent S-algol | Paul Cockshott | Yes | No | DOS | Copyright only |
MCP | Burroughs | No | No | MCP | Proprietary |
cf. ALGOL 68s specification and implementation timeline
Name | Year | Purpose | State | Description | Target CPU | Licensing | Implementation Language |
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ALGOL 68 r0 [ citation needed ] | 1968 | Standard | Intl | IFIP WG 2.1 Final Report | Specification – August | ACM | |
ALGOL 68-R R | 1970 | Military | UK | ICL 1900 | ALGOL 60 | ||
EPOS ALGOL E[ citation needed ] | 1971 | Scientific | |||||
ALGOL 68RS RS | 1972 | Military | UK | Portable compiler system | ICL 2900/Series 39, Multics, VMS & C generator (1993) | Crown Copyright | ALGOL 68RS |
Mini ALGOL 68[ citation needed ] | 1973 | Research | NL | An interpreter for simple Algol 68 programs "An interpreter for simple Algol 68 Programs" (PDF). Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-18. | Portable interpreter | Mathematisch Centrum | ALGOL 60 |
ALGOL 68C C | 1975 | Scientific | UK | Cambridge Algol 68 | ICL, IBM 360, PDP 10 & Unix, Telefunken, Tesla & Z80(1980) [2] | Cambridge | ALGOL 68C |
ALGOL 68 Revised Report r1 [ citation needed ] | 1975 | Standard | Intl | IFIP WG 2.1 Revised Report | Specification | ACM | |
Odra Algol 68[ citation needed ] | 1976 | practical uses | USSR/Poland | Odra 1204/IL | Soviet | ALGOL 60 | |
FLACC F | 1977 | Multi-purpose | CA | Revised Report complete implementation with debug features | System/370 | lease, Chion Corporation | Assembler |
Leningrad ALGOL 68 L[ citation needed ] | 1980 | Telecommunications | USSR | Full Language + Modules | IBM, DEC, CAMCOH, PS 1001 & PC | Soviet | |
Interactive ALGOL 68 I | 1983 | UK | Incremental compilation | PC | Noncommercial shareware | ||
ALGOL 68S S | 1985 | Scientific | Intl | Sun version of ALGOL 68 | Sun-3, Sun SPARC (under SunOS 4.1 & Solaris 2), Atari ST (under GEMDOS), Acorn Archimedes (under RISC OS), VAX-11 under Ultrix-32 | ||
Algol68toC [3] [ better source needed ] (ctrans) | 1985 | Electronics | UK | ctrans from ELLA ALGOL 68RS | Portable C generator | Open sourced & Public Domained (1995) | ALGOL 68RS |
Algol 68 GenieG[ citation needed ] | 2001 | Full Language | NL | Includes standard collateral clause | Portable interpreter | GPL | C |
GCC (ga68) | 2025 | Full Language | ES | GCC Front-End | Portable compiler | GPL | C |
Assembler | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type |
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A86 assembler | Eric Isaacson | Yes | No | No | Proprietary |
FASM | Tomasz Grysztar | Yes | Yes | Yes | BSD |
GNU Assembler | The GNU Project | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 |
High Level Assembly (HLA) | Randall Hyde | Yes | Yes | Yes | Public domain |
JWasm Assembler [4] | Japheth and others | Yes | Yes | Yes | Sybase Open Watcom Public License |
Microsoft Macro Assembler | Microsoft | Yes | No | No | Proprietary |
Netwide Assembler | Simon Tatham and Julian Hall | Yes | Yes | Yes | BSD |
Turbo Assembler | Borland | Yes | No | No | Proprietary |
Assembler | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type |
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Assembler[ citation needed ] | Motorola | Yes | No | No | Proprietary |
Devpac[ citation needed ] | HiSoft Systems | No | No | Amiga, Atari ST | Proprietary |
GNU Assembler | The GNU Project | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 |
rmac [ citation needed ] | James Hammons, George Nakos, Landon Dyer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Freeware |
Assembler | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type |
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Microsoft MACRO-80 | Microsoft | No | No | Yes | Proprietary |
Zeus Assembler | Neil Mottershead, Simon Brattel | No | No | Yes | Proprietary |
Prometheus | Proxima software | No | No | No | Proprietary |
Assembler | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type |
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TMS 9900 assembler | Texas Instruments | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary |
GNU Assembler | The GNU Project | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 |
TAL (Tandem Application Language)[ citation needed ] | Tandem Computers | No | Yes | Guardian, NonStop Kernel | Proprietary |
pTAL (The Application Language)[ citation needed ] | Tandem Computers | No | Yes | NonStop Kernel, NonStop OS | Proprietary |
epTAL (The Application Language)[ citation needed ] | HPE | No | Yes | NonStop OS | Proprietary |
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Compiler | Author | Working state | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type | Standard conformance | |
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Minimal BASIC | Full BASIC | |||||||
AppGameKit | The Game Creators | Current | Yes | Yes | No | Proprietary | ? | ? |
BASIC-PLUS-2[ citation needed ] | Digital Equipment Corporation | Discontinued | No | ? | RSTS/E, RSX-11M | Proprietary | ? | ? |
BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 | Richard T. Russell | Current | Yes | Yes (Linux, macOS, Android) | Yes (Raspberry Pi OS) | zlib License | No | No |
BlitzMax | Blitz Research | Discontinued | Yes | Yes (Linux, macOS) | No | zlib License | No | No |
DarkBASIC | The Game Creators | Inactive | Yes | No | No | MIT License | No | No |
ECMA-55 Minimal BASIC compiler [5] | John Gatewood Ham | Current | No | Linux | No | GPLv2 | Yes | No |
FreeBASIC | FreeBASIC Development Team | Current | Yes | Yes | MS-DOS, FreeBSD, Linux | GPLv2+ | Partial [6] [ unreliable source? ] | No |
FutureBASIC | Brilor Software | Current | No | macOS | Classic Mac OS | Proprietary | Partial | No |
Gambas | Benoît Minisini | Current | No | Yes | No | GPLv2+ | No | No |
GFA BASIC | Frank Ostrowski | Abandoned | Yes | No | Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS | Proprietary | No | No |
Mercury | RemObjects | Current | Yes | Yes (Linux, macOS, Android, iOS) | Yes (WebAssembly) | Proprietary | No | No |
PowerBASIC (formerly Turbo Basic) | PowerBASIC, Inc. | Inactive | Yes | No | DOS | Proprietary | ? | ? |
PureBasic | Fantaisie Software | Current | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | No | No |
QB64 | Galleon | Current | Yes | Yes | Yes | LGPLv2.1 | Partial | No |
QuickBASIC | Microsoft | Discontinued | No | No | MS-DOS | Proprietary | Partial | No |
Tandem BASIC[ citation needed ] | Tandem Computers | Historic | No | No | Guardian, NonStop Kernel, NonStop OS | Proprietary | No | No |
True BASIC | True BASIC | Current | Yes | No | No | Proprietary | Yes | Partial [7] |
VSI BASIC for OpenVMS | VMS Software, Inc. | Current | No | No | OpenVMS | Proprietary | No | No |
Xojo (formerly REALbasic) | Xojo Inc. (formerly Real Software) | Current | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | No | No |
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Compiler | Author | Operating system [i] | License type | IDE | Standard conformance | ||||||
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Windows | Unix-like | Other | C++11 | C++14 | C++17 | C++20 | C++23 | ||||
AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler (AOCC) | AMD | No | Yes | No | Proprietary (Freeware) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial |
C++Builder (classic Borland, bcc*) | Embarcadero (CodeGear) | Yes (bcc32) | macOS (bccosx) [21] | No | Proprietary (Free Community Edition) [22] | Yes | Yes [23] [24] | No | No | ? | ? |
C++Builder (modern, bcc*c) | Embarcadero (LLVM) [25] | Yes (bcc32c,bcc64, bcc32x,bcc64x) | ⟨iOS⟩ (bccios*), ⟨Android⟩ (bcca*) [21] | No | Proprietary (Freeware - 32bit CLI, [26] Free Limited Commercial Edition) [22] | Yes | Yes [ii] [23] [24] | Yes [27] | Yes [28] | ? | ? |
Turbo C++ (tcc) | Borland (CodeGear) | Yes | No | DOS | Freeware | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? |
CINT | CERN | Yes | Yes | BeBox, DOS, etc. | X11/MIT | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? |
Cfront | Bjarne Stroustrup | No | Yes | No | ? | No | No | No | No | ? | ? |
Clang (clang++) | LLVM Project | Yes | Yes | Yes | UoI/NCSA | Xcode, QtCreator (optional) | Yes [ii] [29] [30] [24] | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial |
Comeau C/C++ | Comeau Computing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | No | No [iii] | No | No | ? | ? |
Cray C/C++ (CC) | Cray | No | No | No | Proprietary | No | Yes [iv] [31] [32] | Yes [iv] | Yes | Partial | No |
Digital Mars C/C++ (dmc) | Digital Mars | Yes | No | DOS | Proprietary | No | Partial [33] [24] | No | No | ? | ? |
EDG C++ Front End (eccp, edgcpfe) | Edison Design Group | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | No | Yes [iii] [34] [24] | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial |
EKOPath (pathCC) | PathScale and others | No | Yes | Yes | Mixed (Proprietary, Open–source & GPL) | No | Yes [v] [35] | Partial | No | ? | ? |
GCC (g++) | GNU Project | MinGW, MSYS2, Cygwin, Windows Subsystem | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 | QtCreator, Kdevelop, Eclipse, NetBeans, Code::Blocks, Dev-C++, Geany | Yes [v] [36] [37] [24] | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial |
HP aC++ (aCC) | Hewlett-Packard | No | HP-UX | No | Proprietary | No | Partial [38] [24] | No | No | ? | ? |
IAR C/C++ Compilers (icc*) | IAR Systems | Yes | No | ⟨Yes⟩ | Proprietary | IAR Embedded Workbench | Yes [39] | Yes | Partial | ? | ? |
Intel C++ Compiler (icc) | Intel | Yes | Linux, macOS, FreeBSD; ⟨Android (x86)⟩ | No | Proprietary (Freeware) [40] | Visual Studio, Eclipse, Xcode | Yes [iii] [41] [24] | Yes [42] | Yes [43] | Partial | Partial |
KAI C++ (KCC) | Kuck & Associates, Inc. ⟨subsumed by Intel⟩ | No | TOPS-20, Digital Unix, HP-UX, Linux (x86), IRIX 5.3 & 6.x, Solaris 2.x, UNICOS | No | Proprietary | No | No [iii] [44] | No | No | ? | ? |
Microtec C/C++ (mcc) | Mentor ⟨Siemens⟩ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | EDGE Developer Suite | No | No | No | ? | ? |
EDGE C/C++ [vi] | Mentor ⟨Siemens⟩ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | EDGE Developer Suite | No | No | No | ? | |
Open64 (openCC) | HP, AMD, Tsinghua University and others | No | Yes | No | Modified GPLv2 | No | No [v] [vii] [45] | No | No | ? | ? |
PGC++ (pgc++) | PGI ⟨Nvidia⟩ | Unsupported [46] | Linux, macOS | No | Proprietary | Eclipse, Xcode, Visual Studio | Yes [iii] [47] [24] | Yes | Partial | ? | ? |
ProDev WorkShop | Silicon Graphics | No | IRIX 5.3 & 6.x | Yes | Proprietary | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
RealView Compilation Tools (armcc) | Keil ⟨Arm⟩ | Yes | Yes | ⟨Yes⟩ | Proprietary | RealView Development Suite | No [iii] [48] | No | No | ? | ? |
Arm Compiler (armcc) | Keil ⟨Arm⟩ | Yes | Yes | ⟨Yes⟩ | Proprietary | μVision, DS-5 | Yes [iii] [49] [50] | No | No | ? | ? |
Arm Compiler (armclang) | Keil ⟨Arm⟩ (LLVM) | Yes | No | ⟨Yes⟩ | Proprietary | μVision, DS-5 | Yes [ii] [51] [52] | Yes | No | ? | ? |
Salford C++ Compiler | Silverfrost | Yes | No | No | Proprietary | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
SAS/C C++ | SAS Institute | Windows NT/95 | AIX, Solaris/SunOS, Linux | IBM mainframe, DOS | Proprietary | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
SCORE C++ (tpp) | DDC-I | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? |
SEGGER Compiler | SEGGER Microcontroller | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | ? | ? |
Oracle C++ Compiler (CC) | Oracle | No | Linux, Solaris | No | Proprietary (Freeware) | Oracle Developer Studio, NetBeans | Yes [53] [54] [24] | Yes | No | ? | ? |
Tandem C++ [55] | Tandem Computers | No | Yes | NonStop Kernel, NonStop OS | Proprietary | Eclipse | ? | No | No | ? | |
TenDRA (tcc) | TenDRA Project | No | Yes | No | BSD | No | No [56] | No | No | ? | ? |
VectorC | Codeplay | Yes | No | ⟨PS2⟩, ⟨PS3⟩, etc. | Proprietary | Visual Studio, CodeWarrior | Partial [57] | No | No | ? | ? |
Visual C++ (cl) | Microsoft | Yes | Linux, macOS; ⟨Android⟩, ⟨iOS⟩ | DOS | Proprietary (Free for Individuals and Enterprise under $1M Profit Cap) [58] | Visual Studio, QtCreator | Yes [59] [60] [24] | Yes | Yes [61] | Yes [62] | Partial |
XL C/C++ (xlc++) | IBM | No | Linux (Power), AIX | z/OS, z/VM | Proprietary | Eclipse | Yes [18] [19] [20] | Yes [18] [19] [20] | Yes [18] [19] [20] | Experimental for AIX [19] | No |
Diab Compiler (dcc) | Wind River ⟨TPG Capital⟩ | Yes | Linux, Solaris | ⟨VxWorks⟩ | Proprietary | Wind River Workbench | No [iii] [63] | No | No | ? | ? |
Zig c++ | Zig Software Foundation | Yes | Yes | Yes | MIT License | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
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Compiler | Author | Type | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type | IDE? |
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Visual C# | Microsoft | JIT | Yes | iOS | No | Proprietary | Yes |
Visual C# Express | Microsoft | JIT | Yes | No | No | Freeware | Yes |
Mono | Xamarin | JIT | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPLv2 | Yes |
Portable.NET | DotGNU | AOT | Yes | Yes | No | GPL | No |
SharpDevelop | IC#Code Team. | JIT | Yes | No | No | LGPL | Yes |
Roslyn | .NET Foundation | JIT/AOT | Yes | Partial | No | Apache 2.0 [64] | No |
RemObjects C# | RemObjects | AOT | Yes | Yes (Linux, macOS, Android, iOS) | Yes (WebAssembly) | Proprietary | Yes |
IL2CPP | Unity Technologies | AOT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | No |
IL2CPU | COSMOS | AOT | Yes | Yes | Yes | BSD licenses [65] | No |
Bartok | Microsoft Research | AOT | Yes | No | No | Proprietary | No |
RyuJIT | .NET Foundation. | JIT | Yes | Yes | Yes | MIT License [66] | Yes |
CoreRT | .NET Foundation. | AOT/JIT | Yes | Yes | Yes | MIT License [66] | Yes |
bflat [67] | Michal Strehovský | AOT | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPL [68] | No |
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Compiler | Author | Operating system | License type | IDE? | Standard conformance | |||
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Windows | Unix-like | Other | COBOL-85 | COBOL 2002 | ||||
IBM COBOL | IBM | Yes | AIX, Linux | z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE, IBM i | Proprietary | IBM Developer for z/OS | Yes | Partial |
NetCOBOL | Fujitsu, GTSoftware | Yes | Yes | No | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Partial |
GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL) | Keisuke Nishida, Roger While, Simon Sobisch | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPL | OpenCobolIDE, GIX, HackEdit | Yes | Partial |
GCC (gcobol) [69] | COBOLworx (Symas) | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPL | No | Yes [70] | Planned [70] |
Otterkit [71] [72] | Gabriel Gonçalves | Yes | Yes | Yes (Common Language Infrastructure) | Apache 2.0 | Yes | Partial | Release candidate |
Visual COBOL | Micro Focus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | No |
isCOBOL Evolve | Veryant | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | Eclipse | Yes | Partial |
VMS COBOL | Originally Digital Equipment Corporation, now VSI | No | No | OpenVMS | Proprietary | Visual Studio Code | Yes | No |
MCP COBOL | Unisys | No | No | MCP | Proprietary | CANDE | Yes [73] | No |
OS 2200 COBOL | Unisys | No | No | OS 2200 | Proprietary | ? | Yes [74] | No |
Tandem COBOL [75] [16] | Tandem Computers | No | No | Guardian, NonStop Kernel, NonStop OS | Proprietary | Eclipse, Micro Focus COBOL Workbench [76] | ? | ? |
PDP-11 COBOL | Digital Equipment Corporation | No | No | RSTS/E, RSX-11M | Proprietary | ? | No | No |
COBOL-85 | Digital Equipment Corporation | No | No | RSTS/E, RSX-11M, VMS | Proprietary | ? | ? | ? |
Austec Cobol | Esmond & David Pitt and Derek Trusler, Austec International Inc. | No | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | No | Partial | Partial |
Compiler | Author | Target | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type | IDE? |
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Allegro Common Lisp | Franz, Inc. | Native code | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | Yes |
Armed Bear Common Lisp | Peter Graves | JVM | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPL | Yes |
CLISP | GNU Project | Bytecode | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPL | No |
Clozure CL | Clozure Associates | Native code | Yes | Yes | No | LGPL | Yes |
CMU Common Lisp | Carnegie Mellon University | Native code, Bytecode | No | Yes | No | Public domain | Yes |
Corman Common Lisp | Corman Technologies | Native code | Yes | No | No | MIT license | Yes |
Embeddable Common Lisp | Juanjo Garcia-Ripoll | Bytecode, C | Yes | Yes | Yes | LGPL | Yes |
GNU Common Lisp | GNU Project | C | Yes | Yes | No | GPL | No |
LispWorks | LispWorks Ltd | Native code | Yes | Yes | No | Proprietary | Yes |
mocl | Wukix | Native code | No | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | No |
Movitz | Frode V. Fjeld | Native code, own OS | No | No | Yes | BSD | No |
Open Genera | Symbolics | Ivory emulator, own OS | No | No | Yes | Proprietary | Yes |
Scieneer Common Lisp | Scieneer Pty Ltd | Native code | No | Yes | No | Proprietary | No |
Steel Bank Common Lisp | sbcl.org | Native code | Yes | Yes | Yes | Public domain | Yes |
Compiler | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type | IDE? |
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D (DMD) | Digital Mars and others | Yes | 32-bit Linux, macOS, FreeBSD | No | Boost | No |
D for .NET | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
GCC (GDC) | GNU Project | Yes | Yes | No | GPL | No |
LDC | LLVM | Yes | Yes | No | multiple Open Source license depending on module | No |
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Compiler | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type | IDE? |
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DIBOL | Digital Equipment Corporation | No | No | RSTS/E, VMS | Proprietary | No |
Synergy DBL [77] [78] [79] | Synergex | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | Yes |
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Compiler | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type | IDE? |
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EiffelStudio | Eiffel Software / Community developed (SourceForge) | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPL | Yes |
LibertyEiffel (fork of SmartEiffel) | D. Colnet and community | ? | Yes | ? | GPLv2 | ? |
SmartEiffel | D. Colnet | ? | Yes | ? | GPLv2 | ? |
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Compiler | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type |
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Win32Forth [80] | Andrew McKewan, Tom Zimmer, et al. | Yes | No | No | public domain |
VFX Forth [81] [82] | MPE | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
SwiftForth [83] | Forth Inc. | Yes | Yes | No | Proprietary |
SP-Forth | Andrey Cherezov | Yes | Yes | ? | GPL3 |
Retro Forth [84] | Charles Childers | Yes | Yes | ? | ISC license |
pForth | Phil Burk | Yes | Yes | Yes | public domain |
Open Firmware | ? | ? | ? | ? | BSD license |
iForth [85] | Marcel Hendrix | Yes | Yes | No | Proprietary |
Gforth | Bernd Paysan and Anton Ertl | Yes | Yes | No | GPL3 |
colorForth | Charles H. Moore | ? | ? | ? | public domain |
ciforth [86] [87] [88] | Albert van der Horst | Yes | Yes | No | GPL |
Atlast [89] | John Walker | ? | Yes | No | public domain |
Collapse OS [90] | Virgil Dupras | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
FreeForth [91] | ? | Yes | Yes (Linux) | ? | public domain |
ByteForth [92] | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
noForth [93] | ? | ? | ? | RISC-V baremetal | ? |
4tH [94] | Hans Bezemer | Yes | Yes | Yes | LGPL |
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Compiler | Author | Working state | Operating system | License type | IDE? | ||
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Windows | Unix-like | Other | |||||
AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler (AOCC) | AMD | Current | No | Yes | No | Freeware | No |
PDP-11 FORTRAN IV | Digital Equipment Corporation | Discontinued | No | No | Yes | Proprietary | No |
PDP-11 FORTRAN-IV-Plus | Digital Equipment Corporation | Discontinued | No | No | Yes | Proprietary | No |
Fortran 77 | Digital Equipment Corporation | Discontinued | No | ? | RSTS/E, VMS | Proprietary | ? |
Fortran H (equivalent to Fortran IV) | IBM | Discontinued | No | No | Yes | Proprietary | No |
Oracle Fortran | Oracle | Discontinued | No | Linux, Solaris | No | Freeware | Oracle Developer Studio |
PGFORTRAN | The Portland Group | Discontinued | Yes | Linux only | Yes | Proprietary | Visual Studio on Windows |
PathScale Compiler Suite | SiCortex | Discontinued | No | Linux only | No | Proprietary | Yes |
Absoft Pro Fortran | Absoft | Discontinued | Yes | Linux, macOS | Yes | Proprietary | Yes |
G95 | Andy Vaught | Inactive | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPL | No |
VS/9 Fortran IV | Unisys | Discontinued | No | No | Yes | Proprietary | No |
GCC (GNU Fortran) | GNU Project | Current | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 | Photran (part of Eclipse), Simply Fortran, Lahey Fortran |
Intel Fortran Compiler Classic (ifort) | Intel | Current | Yes | Linux and macOS | No | Freeware, optional priority support | Yes (plugins), Visual Studio on Windows, Eclipse on Linux, XCode on Mac |
Intel Fortran Compiler (ifx) | Intel | Current | Yes | Linux | No | Freeware, optional priority support | Yes (plugins), Visual Studio on Windows, Eclipse on Linux |
Open64 | Google, HP, Intel, Nvidia, PathScale, Tsinghua University and others | Finished | No | Yes | Yes | GPL | No |
Classic Flang | LLVM Project | Current | Yes | Yes | Yes | NCSA | Yes |
LLVM Flang | LLVM Project | Current | Yes | Yes | Yes | NCSA | Yes |
LFortran | The LFortran team | Current | Yes | Yes | Yes | BSD | Yes |
FTN95 | Silverfrost | Current | Yes | No | No | Proprietary | Yes |
NAG Fortran Compiler | Numerical Algorithms Group | ? | Yes | Yes | No | Proprietary | Yes |
Tandem Fortran [16] | Tandem Computers | Discontinued | No | ? | Guardian, NonStop Kernel, NonStop OS | Proprietary | No |
VS Fortran | IBM | Current | No | No | z/OS, z/VSE and z/VM | Proprietary | Eclipse |
XL Fortran | IBM | Current | No | Linux (Power and AIX | No | Proprietary | Eclipse |
sxf90 / sxmpif90 | NEC | ? | No | Yes | SUPER-UX | Proprietary | Yes |
MCP | Unisys | Discontinued | No | No | MCP | Proprietary | CANDE |
Open Watcom | Sybase and Open Watcom Contributors | Current | Yes | Yes | DOS, OS/2 | Sybase Open Watcom Public License | on Windows, OS/2 |
Symbolics Fortran | Symbolics | Discontinued | No | No | Symbolics Genera | Proprietary | Yes |
Cray | Cray | Current | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | Yes |
Compiler | Working state | Operating system | License type | ||
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Windows | Unix-like | Other | |||
Gc | Current | Yes | Yes | Yes | BSD 3-Clause |
GCC (gccgo) | Current | MinGW, Cygwin | Yes | Yes | GPL |
RemObjects Gold | Current | Yes | Linux, macOS, Android, iOS | Yes (WebAssembly) | Proprietary |
LLVM (llgo) | Dropped [95] | No | Yes | No | NCSA |
Gopherjs | Current | Yes | Yes | Yes | BSD 2-Clause |
TinyGo | Current | Yes | Yes | Yes | BSD 3-Clause |
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Compiler | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type | Actively maintained? |
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HBC | Lennart Augustsson Thomas Johnsson | ? | Yes | No | Open source | No |
GHC | GHC | Yes | Yes | No | Open source | Yes |
YHC | YHC | Yes | Yes | No | Open source | No |
JHC | John Meacham | Yes | Yes | No | Open source | Yes |
Name | Author | Working state | Target | Written in | Operating system | License type | Standard conformance | ||
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Windows | Unix-like | Other | |||||||
Easy-ISLisp [96] | Kenichi Sasagawa | Current | C, bytecode | C, Lisp | No | Linux, macOS, OpenBSD | No | BSD 2-Clause | Yes |
OpenLisp | Eligis | Current | C, bytecode | C, Lisp | Yes | macOS, Linux, BSD, AIX, Solaris, QNX | ? | Proprietary | Yes |
dayLISP [97] | Matthew Denson | Inactive | Java bytecode | Java, Lisp | Yes | Yes | Yes (JVM) | BSD 3-Clause | Partial |
Iris [98] | Masaya Taniguchi [99] | Inactive | Bytecode | Go | Yes | Yes | Yes | MPL 2.0 | Yes |
Iris web REPL [100] | Masaya Taniguchi [99] | Inactive | JavaScript | Go, JavaScript | Yes | Yes | Yes | MPL 2.0 | Yes |
Kiss [101] | Yuji Minejima | Inactive | Bytecode | C, Lisp | Yes | Yes | ? | GPLv3+ | Partial |
OKI ISLISP [102] | Kyoto University and Oki Electric Industry Co. | Finished | Bytecode | C | Yes | No | No | Freeware | Yes |
PRIME-LISP | Mikhail Semenov | Discontinued | Bytecode | C# | Yes | No | No | Shareware, freely redistributable binaries | No |
ISLisproid | Hiroshi Gomi | Discontinued | Bytecode | Java | No | Android | No | Proprietary | ? |
Compiler | Author | Working state | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type | IDE? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Edison Design Group | Edison Design Group | Discontinued | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | No |
GCC (gcj) | GNU Project | Inactive | No | Yes | No | GPL | No |
javac | Sun Microsystems (Owned by Oracle) | Current | Yes | Yes | Yes | BCL | Yes |
javac OpenJDK | Sun Microsystems (Owned by Oracle) | Current | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPLv2 | Yes |
ECJ (Eclipse Compiler for Java) | Eclipse project | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | EPL | Yes |
Jikes | IBM | Inactive | ? | Yes | ? | IPL | ? |
Power J [103] | Sybase (Owned by SAP) | Discontinued | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
Iodine | RemObjects | Current | Yes | Yes (Linux, macOS, Android, iOS) | Yes (WebAssembly) | Proprietary | Yes |
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Interpreter | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ActivePerl interpreter[ citation needed ] | ActiveState | Yes | Yes | Yes | Noncommercial or Proprietary |
Perl interpreter[ citation needed ] | Wall/Perl developers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Artistic or GPL v1 |
Compiler | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type | IDE? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Phalanger | Devsense | Yes | No | Partial | Apache 2.0 | Yes |
PeachPie | iolevel | Yes | Yes | Yes | Apache 2.0 | Yes |
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Compiler | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type | IDE? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
IBM Enterprise PL/I for z/OS[ citation needed ] | IBM | No | No | z/OS | Proprietary | No |
IBM PL/I for AIX[ citation needed ] | IBM | No | AIX | No | Proprietary | No |
IBM PL/I(F)[ citation needed ] | IBM | No | No | z/OS | Freeware | No |
IBM VisualAge PL/I Enterprise for OS/2 and Windows NT[ citation needed ] | IBM | Yes | No | OS/2 | Proprietary | No |
Iron Spring PL/I for Linux and OS/2[ citation needed ] | Iron Spring Software | No | Linux | OS/2 Warp and EComStation | Proprietary; library source is LGPL | No |
Micro Focus Open PL/I[ citation needed ] | Micro Focus | Yes | Yes | No | Proprietary | Yes |
GCC (pl1gcc) | Henrik Sorensen | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPL | No |
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Compiler | Author | Target | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type | IDE? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cython | C | Yes | Yes | Yes | PSFL | No | |
IronPython | CLI | Yes | Yes | Yes (CLI) | Apache 2.0 | No | |
Jython | JVM | Yes | Yes | Yes (JVM) | PSFL | No | |
Nuitka | Kay Hayen | C, C++ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Apache 2.0 | No |
Numba | Anaconda | LLVM (JIT) | Yes | Yes | Yes | BSD 2-Clause | No |
Psyco | Armin Rigo Christian Tismer | x86-32 (JIT) | Yes | Yes | Yes | MIT | No |
PyPy | Own VM (JIT) | Yes | Yes | Yes | MIT | No | |
Shed Skin | C++ | Yes | Yes | Yes | GPLv3 and BSD | No | |
Compiler | Author | Target | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type | IDE? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
YARV | Koichi Sasada | bytecode | Yes | Yes | Yes | Ruby License | No |
IronRuby | Microsoft | .NET | Yes | Yes | Yes | Apache 2.0 | No |
JRuby | JVM | Yes | Yes | Yes | EPL, GPL, LGPL | No | |
Mruby | Yukihiro Matsumoto | bytecode | Yes | Yes | Yes | MIT | No |
TruffleRuby | Oracle | native, JVM | Yes | Yes | Yes | EPL, GPL | No |
Compiler | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | Bare machine | License type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
rustc | Rust Foundation | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Apache License |
GCC Rust [104] | GNU Project | MinGW, Cygwin, WSL | Yes | No | Yes | GPL |
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Compiler | Author | Target | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type | IDE? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bigloo | Manuel Serrano | native, bytecode | Yes | Yes | ? | GPL (compiler) and LGPL (runtime) | No |
Chez Scheme | R. Kent Dybvig | native | Yes | Yes | No | Apache 2.0 | No |
Chicken | The Chicken Team | C | Yes | Yes | ? | BSD | No |
Gambit | Marc Feeley | C | Yes | Yes | ? | LGPL | No |
GNU Guile | GNU Project | bytecode | Yes | Yes | ? | LGPL | No |
Ikarus | Abdulaziz Ghuloum | native | Yes | Yes | ? | GPL | No |
IronScheme | Llewellyn Pritchard | CLI | Yes | Yes | Yes (Common Language Infrastructure) | Ms-PL | No |
JScheme | Ken Anderson, Tim Hickey, Peter Norvig | bytecode | Yes | Yes | Yes (JVM) | zlib License | No |
Kawa | Per Bothner | bytecode | Yes | Yes | Yes (JVM) | MIT | No |
MIT/GNU Scheme | GNU Project | native | Yes | Yes | ? | GPL | No |
Racket | PLT Inc. | bytecode + JIT | Yes | Yes | macOS, Microsoft Windows | LGPL | DrRacket |
Scheme 48 | Richard Kelsey, Jonathan Rees | C, bytecode | Yes | Yes | ? | BSD | No |
SCM | Aubrey Jaffer | C | Yes | Yes | AmigaOS, Atari ST, Classic Mac OS, DOS, OS/2, NOS/VE, OpenVMS | LGPL | No |
SISC | Scott G. Miller, Matthias Radestock | bytecode | Yes | Yes | Yes (JVM) | GPL and MPL | No |
Stalin | Jeffrey Mark Siskind | C | ? | Yes | ? | LGPL | No |
STklos | Erick Gallesio | bytecode | ? | Yes | ? | GPL | No |
Interpreter | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type | IDE? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gauche | Shiro Kawai | Yes | Yes | ? | BSD | No |
Petite Chez Scheme | R. Kent Dybvig | Yes | Yes | No | Apache 2.0 | No |
TinyScheme | ? | ? | ? | Yes | BSD | No |
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Compiler | Author | Target | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type | IDE? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pharo | Pharo Team | VM | Yes | Yes | Yes | MIT License | Yes |
GNU Smalltalk | GNU Smalltalk project | bytecode + JIT | Yes | Yes | No | GPL | No |
VisualWorks | Cincom Systems | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | Yes |
Smalltalk MT | ObjectConnect | native | Yes | No | No | Proprietary | Yes |
Interpreter | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ActiveTcl | ActiveState | Yes | Yes | Yes | Noncommercial or Proprietary |
Tclsh | MKS and many others | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary and/or free |
Wish | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Interpreter | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
DCL (Digital Control Language) | Digital | No | No | OpenVMS, RSX-11M, RSTS/E | Proprietary |
TACL (Tandem Advanced Command Language) | Tandem Computers | No | No | Guardian, NonStop Kernel, NonStop OS | Proprietary |
Interpreter | Author | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amiga ARexx | Commodore | No | No | Yes | Proprietary |
ObjectRexx | IBM | Yes | ? | Yes | Proprietary |
Open Object Rexx | OO Organisation | Yes | Yes | No | CPL |
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Compiler | Author | Working state | Operating system | License type | IDE? | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | |||||
Visual Studio | Microsoft | Current | Yes | No | No | Proprietary | Yes |
Mono | Mono | Current | Yes | Yes | No | MIT | Yes |
Delphi Prism | RemObjects | Current | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | Yes |
Portable.NET | DotGNU | Inactive | Yes | Yes | No | GPL | Unknown |
This list is incomplete. A more extensive list of source-to-source compilers can be found here.
Compiler | Author | Target Input | Target Output | Auto-Parallelizer | Windows | Unix-like | Other OSs | License type | Framework? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit | Semantic Designs | C/C++, COBOL, PL/I, many others | Arbitrary languages | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | Yes |
ROSE | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | C, Fortran, and more | C/C++, Fortran, and more | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | BSD | Yes |
Production quality, free/libre and open source compilers.
gcc
), C++ (g++
), Objective-C, Objective-C++, Fortran ( gfortran
), Ada (GNAT), Go (gccgo
), D (gdc
, since 9.1), Modula-2 (gm2
, since 13.1), COBOL (gcobol
, since 15.1) and Rust (gccrs
, since 15.1) also available, but not in standard are: Java ( gcj
), ALGOL 68 (ga68
), Pascal ( gpc
), Mercury, Modula-3, VHDL and PL/I; [105] Linux, the BSDs, macOS, NeXTSTEP, Windows and BeOS, among othersResearch compilers are mostly not robust or complete enough to handle real, large applications. They are used mostly for fast prototyping new language features and new optimizations in research areas.
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