Top Interpreters & Compilers for Linux

Bocfel is an open source (GPL) interpreter for the Z-machine, which can be used to play Infocom games, as well as other text adventure games originally designed for the Z-machine.Bocfel offers complete support for Gargoyle, uses GTK+ for input and output,...

ScummVM is a multi-platform and open-source software project that has been designed from the ground up to act as an interpreter for numerous classic point-and-click adventure games. It has been engineered to replace the original executables of the...

Linaro GCC is an open source and free software project, a modified version of the FSF (Free Software Foundation) GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) compiler, optimized for performance using new features, patches, etc. It is developed by Linaro and distributed...

FCC (FEniCS Form Compiler) is an open source and freely distributed command-line software that provides a state-of-the-art and efficient compiler tool, which can be used to compile finite element variational forms under GNU/Linux systems.A form evaluation...

The Tcl/Tk project provides an open source, multiplatform, totally free and portable scripting environment that supports string processing and pattern matching, native file system access, shell-like control over other programs, TCP/IP networking, timers,...

GNU Cobol (formerly OpenCOBOL) is an open source, totally free and multiplatform command-line software implemented in C as a COBOL compiler for many POSIX operating systems.The application provides users with a full implementation of the COBOL 2002 and...

Portable Computing Language (also known as pocl) is an open source and free command-line software implemented in C/C++ and designed from the ground up to act as an efficient implementation of the OpenCL standard.Being comprised of a set of LLVM (Low Level...

GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) is an open source command-line software designed to act as a compiler for GNU/Linux and BSD-based operating systems. It includes front-ends for numerous programming languages, including Objective-C, Go, C++, Java, C, Ada, and...

GNU Automake is a completely free, easy-to-use, flexible and open source command-line software project that has been designed from the offset to automatically generate Makefile.in for GNU/Linux programs. The software relies on the Autoconf program, which...

Lua is a free, fast, embeddable, portable, small, powerful, yet simple, proven and robust scripting language or interpreter designed for extending applications. The Lua scripting language combines powerful data description constructs, which are based on...