This page is intended to list all current compilers , compiler generators, interpreters , translators, tool foundations, assemblers , automatable command line interfaces (shells ), etc.
Ada compilers
ALGOL 60 compilers
ALGOL 68 compilers cf. ALGOL 68s specification and implementation timeline
Name Year Purpose State Description Target CPU Licensing Implementation Language
ALGOL 68r0 1968 Standard Intl IFIP WG 2.1 Final Report Specification – August ACM ALGOL 68-R R 1970 Military UK ICL 1900 ALGOL 60
EPOS ALGOLE 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 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)[ 4] Cambridge ALGOL 68C
ALGOL 68 Revised Report r1 1975 Standard Intl IFIP WG 2.1 Revised Report Specification ACM Odra Algol 68
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 68L 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[ 5] (ctrans) 1985 Electronics UK ctrans from ELLA ALGOL 68RS Portable C generator Open sourced & Public Domained (1995) ALGOL 68RS
Algol 68 GenieG 2001 Full Language NL Includes standard collateral clause Portable interpreter GPL C GCC (gac) 2025 Full Language ES GCC Front-End Portable compiler GPL C
Assemblers (Intel *86)
Assemblers (Motorola 68*)
Assemblers (Zilog Z80)
Assemblers (other) Assembler
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
TMS 9900 assembler Texas Instruments Yes Yes Yes Proprietary GNU Assembler The GNU Project Yes Yes Yes GPLv3 TAL (Tandem Application Language)
Tandem Computers
No
Yes
Guardian, NonStop Kernel
Proprietary
pTAL (The Application Language)
Tandem Computers
No
Yes
NonStop Kernel, NonStop OS
Proprietary
epTAL (The Application Language)
HPE
No
Yes
NonStop OS
Proprietary
BASIC compilers
Compiler
Author
Working state
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
Standard conformance
Minimal BASIC Full BASIC AppGameKit The Game Creators Current Yes Yes No Proprietary ? ?
BASIC-PLUS-2
Digital Equipment Corporation Discontinued
No
?
RSTS/E , RSX-11M Proprietary ?
?
B4X Erel Uziel Current Yes Yes (Android , iOS ) Yes (JVM) Apache 2.0 No No
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[ 6] John Gatewood Ham Current No Linux No GPLv2 Yes No
FreeBASIC FreeBASIC Development Team Current Yes Yes DOS , FreeBSD , Linux GPLv2+ Partial[ 7] [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 , 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 DOS Proprietary Partial No
Tandem BASIC
Tandem Computers Historic
No
No
Guardian, NonStop Kernel, NonStop OS Proprietary No
No
True BASIC True BASIC Current Yes No No Proprietary Yes Partial[ 8] twinBASIC[ 9] Wayne Phillips Current Yes No No Proprietary No No
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
BASIC interpreters Interpreter
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
BASIC-PLUS
Digital Equipment Corporation No
No
RSTS/E Proprietary BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 Richard T. Russell Yes Yes (Linux , macOS , Android , iOS ) Raspberry Pi OS , Web browser zlib License Bywater BASIC (bwBASIC) Ted Campbell No Yes ? GPL Liberty BASIC Shoptalk Systems Yes No No Proprietary GW-BASIC Microsoft No No MS-DOS Proprietary QBasic Microsoft No No MS-DOS Proprietary Chipmunk Basic Ronald H. Nicholson, Jr. Yes Yes Yes Freeware TI BASIC (TI 99/4A) Texas Instruments No No TI-99/4A Proprietary TI Extended BASIC Texas Instruments No No TI-99/4A Proprietary MiniBasic Malcolm McLean Yes Yes Yes free for any use
Rocky Mountain BASIC [Trans Era] Yes No HP 9000 Proprietary Bas Michael Haardt No Yes No MIT License Yabasic Marc-Oliver Ihm Yes Yes Haiku MIT License SmallBASIC SmallBASIC Yes Yes Android , macOS GPLv3+ SuperBASIC Jan Jones No No Sinclair QL Proprietary thinBasic thinBasic Yes No No Proprietary PC-BASIC Rob Hagemans Yes Yes macOS GPLv3+ Level I BASIC Steve Leininger No No TRS-80 ROM Proprietary Level II BASIC Microsoft No No TRSDOS , NewDos/80 , MultiDOS, DosPlus, LDOS Proprietary Level III BASIC Microsoft No No TRSDOS , NewDos/80 , MultiDOS, DosPlus, LDOS Proprietary VAX BASIC Digital Equipment Corporation No
No
VAX/VMS Proprietary
C compilers Compiler
Author
Microsoft Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
Bare machine License type
Standard conformance
C89 C99 C11 C17 8cc Rui Ueyama Yes Yes ? ? MIT Yes Yes Yes No
Acorn C/C++ Acorn and Codemist No No RISC OS ? Proprietary Yes Yes No Yes
AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler (AOCC) AMD No Yes No ? Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes
Aztec C Manx Software Systems No No CP/M , CP/M-86 , DOS , Classic Mac OS ? Proprietary ? ? ? ?
Amsterdam Compiler Kit Andrew Tanenbaum and Ceriel Jacobs No Yes Yes ? BSD ? ? ? ?
BDS C BD Software No No CP/M ? Public domain ? ? ? ?
C++Builder Embarcadero Yes Yes (iOS, Android) No ? Proprietary Yes Yes Partial ?
Ch SoftIntegration, Inc Yes macOS , FreeBSD , Linux , Solaris , HP-UX , AIX , QNX Yes ? Freeware Yes Yes No ?
Clang LLVM Project Yes Yes Yes ? UoI/NCSA Yes Yes Yes Yes
CompCert INRIA Yes Yes No ? Freeware (source code available for non-commercial use) or GPL Yes Partial No ?
cproc Michael Forney Yes Yes No ? ISC Yes Yes Yes Yes
DEC C Originally Digital Equipment Corporation , now VSI No Tru64 , Linux OpenVMS ? Proprietary Yes Yes ? ?
Digital Mars Digital Mars Yes No No ? Proprietary ? ? ? ?
Digital Research C [ 10] Digital Research ? ? CP/M, DOS ? Proprietary ? ? ? ?
Edison Design Group Edison Design Group Yes Yes Yes ? Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes
GCC (gcc) GNU Project MinGW , Cygwin , WSL Yes IBM mainframe, AmigaOS , VMS , RTEMS , DOS [ 11] Yes GPL Yes Partial[ i] Partial[ i] Partial[ i] IAR C/C++ Compilers IAR Systems Yes {yes[ note 1] } No ? Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes
Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler (icx) Intel Yes Linux No ? Freeware (optional priority support) Yes Yes Yes[ 12] Yes
Intel C++ Compiler Classic (icc) Intel Yes Linux , macOS No ? Freeware (optional priority support) Yes Partial[ 13] Partial[ 13] ?
Interactive C KISS Institute for Practical Robotics Yes Unix , macOS , Linux , IRIX , Solaris , SunOS No ? Freeware Partial No No ?
keil C/C++ Compilers Keil (company) Yes Yes No ? Proprietary ? ? ? ?
Lattice C Lifeboat Associates No Yes DOS , OS/2 , Commodore , Amiga , Atari ST , Sinclair QL ? Proprietary ? ? ? ?
lcc Chris Fraser and David Hanson Yes Yes Yes ? Freeware (source code available for non-commercial use) Yes No No ?
Mark Williams C Mark Williams Company Yes Coherent Yes ? Proprietary - Coherent Compiler 3-clause BSD[clarification needed ] ? ? ? ?
MCP Unisys No No MCP ? Proprietary ? ? ? ?
MikroC Compiler Mikroelektronika Yes Yes Yes ? Proprietary ? ? ? ?
MPW C Apple No No Classic Mac OS ? Proprietary ? ? ? ?
Open64 AMD , SGI , Google , HP , Intel , Nvidia , PathScale , Tsinghua University and others No Yes Yes ? GPL ? ? ? ?
Pacific C Hi-tech software No No DOS ? Freeware [ 14] ? ? ? ?
Pelles C Pelle Orinius Yes No No ? Freeware No Yes Yes Yes
Personal C Compiler (PCC) DeSmet No No DOS ? GPL [ 15] Yes [ ii] No No No
PGCC The Portland Group Yes Yes Unknown ? Proprietary ? ? ? ?
Portable C Compiler Stephen C. Johnson , Anders Magnusson and others Yes Yes Yes ? BSD Yes Partial No ?
QuickC Microsoft Yes No No ? Proprietary ? ? ? ?
Ritchie C Compiler (PDP-11) Dennis Ritchie and John Reiser; converted to cross-compiler by Doug Gwyn Yes Yes Yes ? Freeware Partial Partial Partial Partial
SAS/C SAS Institute Yes Yes Yes IBM mainframe, AmigaOS, 68K, 88K ? Proprietary ? ? ? ?
Alan Snyder's Portable C Compiler Alan Snyder and current Maintainer larsbrinkhoff|Snyder-C-compiler No Yes No ? MIT License ? ? ? ?
The SubC Compiler Nils M Holm|SubC No Yes No ? Public Domain ? ? ? ?
SCORE C (tcc) DDC-I Yes Yes Yes ? Proprietary ? ? ? ?
SEGGER Compiler[ 16] SEGGER Microcontroller Yes Yes Yes ? Proprietary Yes Yes Partial Partial
SCC Roberto E. Vargas Caballero Yes Yes ? ? ISC Yes Yes No No
Small-C Ron Caine, James E. Hendrix, Byte magazine Yes Yes CP/M , DOS ? Public domain Partial No No ?
Small Device C Compiler Sandeep Dutta and others Yes Yes Unknown Yes GPL ? ? ? ?
Symbolics C Symbolics No No Symbolics Genera ? Proprietary ? No No No
Tandem C[ 17] Tandem Computers No
Yes
Guardian, NonStop Kernel, NonStop OS No
Proprietary ?
?
No
No
Tasking Altium Yes Linux , MacOS No ? Proprietary ? ? ? ?
THINK C , Lightspeed C THINK Technologies No No Classic Mac OS ? Proprietary ? ? ? ?
Tiny C Compiler Fabrice Bellard Yes Yes No ? LGPL Yes Partial Partial ?
(Borland ) Turbo C Embarcadero Yes No Yes ? Proprietary - V 2.01 freely available ? ? ? ?
VBCC Volker Barthelmann Yes Yes Yes ? Freeware (source code available, modification not allowed) Yes Partial No ?
Microsoft Visual C++ Microsoft Yes No No ? Proprietary (Freeware ) Yes No[ 18] Partial [ iii] Yes [ iii] Oracle C compiler Oracle No Solaris , Linux No ? Proprietary (Freeware ) Yes Yes Yes No
Watcom C/C++ , Open Watcom C/C++ Watcom Yes experimental DOS , OS/2 ? Sybase Open Watcom Public License Yes Partial No ?
Wind River (Diab) Compiler Wind River Systems Yes Yes Yes ? Proprietary ? ? ? ?
XL C , XL C/C++ IBM No AIX , Linux z/OS , z/VM ? Proprietary Yes Yes Partial ?
Zig cc Zig Software Foundation Yes Yes Yes ? MIT License ? ? ? ?
Notes:
^ a b c Complete except for floating point. ^ ANSI 89 compliant from version 3.1h and up ^ a b Visual Studio v16.8.
C++ compilers Compiler
Author
Operating system [ i] License type
IDE Standard conformance
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)[ 19] No Proprietary (Free Community Edition)[ 20] Yes Yes[ 21] [ 22] No No ? ?
C++Builder (modern, bcc*c) Embarcadero (LLVM )[ 23] Yes (bcc32c,bcc64, bcc32x,bcc64x) ⟨iOS ⟩ (bccios*), ⟨Android ⟩ (bcca*)[ 19] No Proprietary (Freeware - 32bit CLI,[ 24] Free Limited Commercial Edition)[ 20] Yes Yes[ ii] [ 21] [ 22] Yes[ 25] Yes[ 26] ? ?
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] [ 27] [ 28] [ 22] 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] [ 29] [ 30] Yes[ iv] Yes Partial No
Digital Mars C/C++ (dmc) Digital Mars Yes No DOS Proprietary No Partial[ 31] [ 22] No No ? ?
EDG C++ Front End (eccp, edgcpfe) Edison Design Group Yes Yes Yes Proprietary No Yes[ iii] [ 32] [ 22] Yes Yes Partial Partial
EKOPath (pathCC) PathScale and others No Yes Yes Mixed (Proprietary ,Open–source & GPL ) No Yes[ v] [ 33] 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] [ 34] [ 35] [ 22] Yes
Yes Partial Partial
HP aC++ (aCC) Hewlett-Packard No HP-UX No Proprietary No Partial[ 36] [ 22] No No ? ?
IAR C/C++ Compilers (icc*) IAR Systems Yes No ⟨Yes⟩ Proprietary IAR Embedded Workbench Yes[ 37] Yes Partial ? ?
Intel C++ Compiler (icc) Intel Yes Linux , macOS , FreeBSD ; ⟨Android (x86 )⟩ No Proprietary (Freeware )[ 38] Visual Studio , Eclipse , Xcode Yes[ iii] [ 39] [ 22] Yes[ 40] Yes[ 41] 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] [ 42] 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] [ 43] No No ? ?
PGC++ (pgc++) PGI ⟨Nvidia ⟩ Unsupported[ 44] Linux , macOS No Proprietary Eclipse , Xcode , Visual Studio Yes[ iii] [ 45] [ 22] 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] [ 46] No No ? ?
Arm Compiler (armcc) Keil ⟨Arm ⟩ Yes Yes ⟨Yes⟩ Proprietary μVision, DS-5 Yes[ iii] [ 47] [ 48] No No ? ?
Arm Compiler (armclang) Keil ⟨Arm ⟩ (LLVM ) Yes No ⟨Yes⟩ Proprietary μVision, DS-5 Yes[ ii] [ 49] [ 50] 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[ 51] [ 52] [ 22] Yes No ? ?
Tandem C++[ 53] Tandem Computers No
Yes
NonStop Kernel, NonStop OS Proprietary Eclipse
?
No
No
?
TenDRA (tcc) TenDRA Project No Yes No BSD No No[ 54] No No ? ?
VectorC Codeplay Yes No ⟨PS2 ⟩, ⟨PS3 ⟩, etc. Proprietary Visual Studio , CodeWarrior Partial[ 55] No No ? ?
Visual C++ (cl) Microsoft Yes Linux , macOS ; ⟨Android ⟩, ⟨iOS ⟩ DOS Proprietary (Free for Individuals and Enterprise under $1M Profit Cap)[ 56] Visual Studio , QtCreator Yes[ 57] [ 58] [ 22] Yes Yes[ 59] Yes[ 60] Partial
XL C/C++ (xlc++) IBM No Linux (Power ), AIX z/OS , z/VM Proprietary Eclipse Yes[ 61] [ 62] [ 63] [ 64] Yes No No No
Diab Compiler (dcc) Wind River ⟨TPG Capital ⟩ Yes Linux , Solaris ⟨VxWorks ⟩ Proprietary Wind River Workbench No[ iii] [ 65] No No ? ?
Notes:
^ List of host operating systems and/or ⟨cross-compilation targets ⟩. ^ a b c Uses a Clang Front End.[ 27] [ 28] ^ a b c d e f g h Uses an EDG Front End.[ 32] ^ a b The Cray C++ Libraries do not support wide characters and only support a single locale. ^ a b c Uses a GCC Front End.[ 34] [ 35] ^ The EDGE C/C++ compiler is based on the Microtec C/C++ compiler. ^ Last Open64 v5.0 uses GCC 4.2 as its Front End, which doesn't support any C++11.[ 34] [ 35]
C# compilers
COBOL compilers Compiler
Author
Operating system
License type
IDE ?
Standard conformance
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)[ 72] COBOLworx (Symas) Yes Yes Yes GPL No Yes[ 73] Planned[ 73] Otterkit[ 74] [ 75] 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[ 76] No
OS 2200 COBOL Unisys No No OS 2200 Proprietary ? Yes[ 77] No
Tandem COBOL[ 78] [ 17] Tandem Computers No
No
Guardian, NonStop Kernel, NonStop OS Proprietary Eclipse, Micro Focus COBOL Workbench[ 79] ?
?
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
Common Lisp compilers
D compilers
DIBOL/DBL compilers
ECMAScript interpreters
Eiffel compilers Compiler
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
IDE ?
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 ?
Forth compilers and interpreters Compiler
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
Win32Forth[ 83] Andrew McKewan, Tom Zimmer, et. al. Yes No No public domain
VFX Forth[ 84] [ 85] MPE Yes Yes Yes ?
SwiftForth[ 86] Forth Inc. Yes Yes No Proprietary SP-Forth Andrey Cherezov Yes Yes ? GPL3
Retro Forth[ 87] Charles Childers Yes Yes ? ISC license pForth Phil Burk Yes Yes Yes public domain
Open Firmware ? ? ? ? BSD license
iForth[ 88] Marcel Hendrix Yes Yes No Proprietary Gforth Bernd Paysan and Anton Ertl Yes Yes No GPL3
colorForth Charles H. Moore ? ? ? public domain
ciforth[ 89] [ 90] [ 91] Albert van der Horst Yes Yes No GPL
Atlast[ 92] John Walker ? Yes No public domain
Collapse OS[ 93] Virgil Dupras No Yes Yes ?
FreeForth[ 94] ? Yes Yes (Linux) ? public domain
ByteForth[ 95] ? ? ? ? ?
noForth[ 96] ? ? ? RISC-V baremetal ?
4tH[ 97] Hans Bezemer Yes Yes Yes LGPL
Fortran compilers Compiler
Author
Working state
Operating system
License type
IDE ?
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 (beta) (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[ 17] 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
Go compilers
Haskell compilers Compiler
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
Actively maintained?
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
ISLISP compilers and interpreters Name
Author
Working state
Target
Written in
Operating system
License type
Standard conformance
Windows Unix-like Other
Easy-ISLisp[ 99] 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[ 100] Matthew Denson
Inactive
Java bytecode Java , Lisp Yes
Yes
Yes (JVM )
BSD 3-Clause Partial
Iris[ 101] Masaya Taniguchi[ 102] Inactive
Bytecode Go Yes
Yes
Yes
MPL 2.0 Yes
Iris web REPL[ 103] Masaya Taniguchi[ 104] Inactive
JavaScript Go, JavaScript
Yes
Yes
Yes
MPL 2.0 Yes
Kiss[ 105] Yuji Minejima
Inactive
Bytecode C, Lisp Yes
Yes
?
GPLv3+ Partial
OKI ISLISP[ 106] 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 ?
Lisaac compiler Compiler
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
IDE ?
Lisaac Benoit Sonntag, et al. Yes Yes Yes GPL3 ?
Pascal compilers Compiler
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
IDE ?
Amsterdam Compiler Kit Andrew Tanenbaum Ceriel Jacobs No Yes Yes BSD No
Delphi Embarcadero (CodeGear ) Yes Yes (Linux , Mac OS ) Yes (iOS , Android ) Proprietary Yes
Oxygene (formerly Delphi Prism) RemObjects Yes Yes (Linux , macOS , Android , IOS ) Yes (WebAssembly ) Proprietary Yes
Free Pascal Florian Paul Klämpfl Yes Yes Yes (OS/2 , FreeBSD , Solaris , Haiku , Android , DOS , etc.[ note 2] ) GPL FPIDE, Lazarus , Geany (on Ubuntu )
GCC (GNU Pascal ) GNU Project Yes Yes Yes GPL No
Kylix Borland (CodeGear ) No Yes (Linux ) No Proprietary Yes
Turbo Pascal for Windows Borland (CodeGear ) Yes (3.x) No No Proprietary Yes
Microsoft Pascal Microsoft No No Yes (DOS ) Proprietary Yes
OMSI Pascal Oregon Software No No Yes (RT-11 , RSX-11 , RSTS/E ) Proprietary No
Symbolics Pascal Symbolics No No Symbolics Genera Proprietary Yes
Tandem Pascal[ 17] Tandem Computers No
?
Guardian, NonStop Kernel Proprietary ?
VSI Pascal VMS Software Inc No No Yes (OpenVMS ) Proprietary Yes
Turbo Pascal CodeGear (Borland ) No No Yes Freeware Yes
Vector Pascal Glasgow University Yes Yes No OpenSource No
Virtual Pascal Vitaly Miryanov Yes Yes Yes (OS/2 ) Freeware Yes
MCP Unisys No No MCP Proprietary CANDE
Perl interpreters Interpreter
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
ActivePerl interpreter ActiveState Yes Yes Yes Noncommercial or Proprietary
Perl interpreter Wall/Perl developers Yes Yes Yes Artistic or GPL v1
PHP compilers
PL/I compilers Python compilers and interpreters Ruby compilers and interpreters
Rust compilers
Scheme compilers and interpreters 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
Common Larceny William Clinger, Lars Hansen CLI Yes Yes Yes (Common Language Infrastructure ) Larceny License[ 109] 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
Larceny William Clinger, Lars Hansen native Yes Yes ? Larceny License[ 109] No
MIT/GNU Scheme GNU Project native Yes Yes ? GPL No
Petit Larceny William Clinger, Lars Hansen C ? Yes ? Larceny License[ 109] No
Racket PLT Inc. bytecode + JIT Yes Yes No[ 110] LGPL DrRacket RScheme Donovan Kolbly C, bytecode ? Yes ? Open source No
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
SXM[ 111] Sergei Egorov bytecode Yes Yes ? Free for non-commercial use No
Smalltalk compilers
Tcl interpreters
Command language interpreters Interpreter
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
DCL (Digital Control Language) Digital No No OpenVMS , RSX-11M , RSTS/E Proprietary TACL (The Application Control Language)
Tandem Computers
No
No
Guardian, NonStop Kernel, NonStop OS
Proprietary
Rexx interpreters
Source-to-source compilers 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
EDG Front End Edison Design Group C /C++ , Java , Fortran C 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
PIPS Parallélisation interprocédurale de programmes scientifiques Mines ParisTech C , Fortran C , Fortran Yes No Yes Yes GPL Yes
Free/libre and open source compilers Production quality, free/libre and open source compilers.
Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK) [C, Pascal, Modula-2, Occam, and BASIC] [Unix-like] Clang C/C++/Objective-C Compiler AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler FreeBASIC [Basic] [DOS/Linux/Windows] Free Pascal [Pascal] [DOS/Linux/Windows(32/64/CE)/MacOS/NDS/GBA/..(and many more)] GCC : C (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: ALGOL 68, Pascal, Mercury, Modula-3, VHDL and PL/I; Linux, the BSDs, macOS, NeXTSTEP, Windows and BeOS, among others Local C compiler [C] [Linux, SPARC, MIPS] The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure which is also frequently used for research Portable C Compiler [C] [Unix-like] Open Watcom [C, C++, and Fortran] [Windows and OS/2, Linux/FreeBSD WIP] TenDRA [C/C++] [Unix-like] Tiny C Compiler [C] [Linux, Windows] Open64 , supported by AMD on Linux. XPL PL/I dialect (several systems) Swift [Apple OSes, Linux, Windows (as of version 5.3)]
Research compilers Research 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.
See also
^ Was added in version 9.30. The tools and license include the suffix "bx". ^ Further details on supported hosts and targets may be found on the lists of official installers and supported targets .
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