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ride		APL
	Project
5	Mentions	5
195	Stars	82
3.1%	Growth	-
9.2	Activity	0.0
1 day ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
JavaScript	Language	Java
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

ride

Posts with mentions or reviews of ride. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-27.

Franz Inc. has moved the whole Allegro CL IDE to a browser-based user interface. Incl. all their Lisp development tools. One can check that out with their Allegro CL Express Edition.
2 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 27 Mar 2023

Not a bad idea for current times. Dyalog APL, the only active APL compiler developer, did similar a couple of years ago with RIDE
Having trouble installing bqn into arch
2 projects | /r/apljk | 19 Dec 2022

The Linux IDE for Dyalog is Ride, packaged separately and available from Dyalog's github: https://github.com/Dyalog/ride
-🎄- 2021 Day 6 Solutions -🎄-
225 projects | /r/adventofcode | 5 Dec 2021
Try APL
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jun 2021
From Competitive Programming to APL and Array Programming
2 projects | /r/programming | 2 Jun 2021

APL

Posts with mentions or reviews of APL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-18.

Languages designed for typing on mobile phone
1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 14 Oct 2022

Dzaima's APL interpreter for Android was the first thing that came to my mind in regards to custom interfaces for typing code on a phone. It uses some nifty directional keys that can type up to 5 different symbols depending on swipe direction.
Is there an Android clone of APL?
2 projects | /r/apljk | 18 Apr 2022

Yeah, download aplide.apk from here: https://github.com/dzaima/APL/releases/tag/v0.2.0
Barriers to APL Adoption
4 projects | /r/apljk | 21 Jan 2022

Others like ngn-apl and dzaima/APL don't seem to be widely used and/or are not actively maintained.
Are there any apl interpreter+keyboard apps for Android/iOS?
3 projects | /r/apljk | 24 Sep 2021

dzaima/APL has an Android app and keyboard: https://github.com/dzaima/APL/tree/master/AndroidIDE
Why is GNU APL almost never mentioned online vs. Dyalog APL? And is the syntax divergence hurting adoption?
3 projects | /r/apljk | 11 Jul 2021

dzaima/apl, april

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ride and APL you can also consider the following projects:

array - Simple array language written in kotlin

BQN - An APL-like programming language. Self-hosted!

ngn-apl - An APL interpreter written in JavaScript. Runs in a browser or NodeJS.

android-gnu-apl - GNU APL port to Android

APL.jl

april - The APL programming language (a subset thereof) compiling to Common Lisp.

fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell.

Jarvis - APL-based web service framework supporting JSON or REST

json - A tiny JSON parser and emitter for Perl 6 on Rakudo

hackerskeyboard - Hacker's Keyboard + APL & BQN language input

aplette - This is a new take on an old language: APL. The goal is to pare APL down to its elegant essence. This version of APL is oriented toward scripting within a Unix-style computing environment.

termux-packages - A package build system for Termux.