ActiveState's Community Edition Languages
Battle-tested by millions of developers. Free to use for development and testing environments.
ActivePython 3.8
Accelerate your data science and software development with a production-ready, secure and supported Python distribution.
ActivePerl 5.28
Support your mission-critical applications with the world’s most trusted Perl distribution.
ActiveTcl 8.6
Support your need for rapid prototyping, scripted applications and GUI creation with the industry's only general-purpose Tcl distribution.
Where are the rest of our languages?
While they're not yet on the Platform, you can still access the other Community Languages on the ActiveState website.
Curated Projects
Small runtimes that solve big problems. Hand selected by our team to get you to the fun stuff faster.
Catalyst for Perl WebDev
WebDev runtime featuring the Catalyst framework and many of its most popular plugins.
Dancer for Perl WebDev
WebDev runtime featuring the Dancer2 framework and many of its most popular plugins.
ML-Mini-Runtime
Includes most of the popular packages for Machine Learning and Data Science, pre-compiled and ready to for use in projects ranging from recommendation engines to dashboards.
Mojolicious for Perl WebDev
WebDev runtime featuring the Mojolicious framework and many of its most popular plugins
Perl Testing Tools
Perl has a huge set of great testing tools that come with the base language. This runtime is designed to provide you with many of the best third party test tools, as well.
Perl WebDev Environment
Includes all the most popular frameworks, including Dancer, Mojolicious and Catalyst. Use it if you want to test out and compare the different frameworks.
Python 2 - 3 Migration
Contains key packages for migrating from Python 2 to Python 3.
Python WebDev Environment
Python runtime environment for web application development that contains all the popular frameworks, tools and utilities you'll need.
Do you have a custom, purpose-built runtime? Submit your project so others can benefit. We'll check it out and add it to our curated list, if appropriate. Get in touch!