Alternatives to highway
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. highway itself: install highway.
node
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
deno
A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool
nebula
A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security
mimalloc
mimalloc is a compact general purpose allocator with excellent performance
foundry
Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust
buildkitd
concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit
limine
Modern, secure, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager
massdns
A high-performance DNS stub resolver for bulk lookups and reconnaissance (subdomain enumeration)
core-lightning
Core Lightning — Lightning Network implementation focusing on spec compliance and performance
bpftop
bpftop provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs. It displays the average runtime, events per second, and estimated total CPU % for e
concurrencykit
Concurrency primitives, safe memory reclamation mechanisms and non-blocking (including lock-free) data structures designed to aid in the research, des
macchina
A system information frontend with an emphasis on performance
alass
"Automatic Language-Agnostic Subtitle Synchronization"
procyon-decompiler
Procyon is a suite of Java metaprogramming tools, including a rich reflection API, a LINQ-inspired expression tree API for runtime code generation, an
libass
libass is a portable subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA (Advanced Substation Alpha/Substation Alpha) subtitle format
scriptisto
A language-agnostic "shebang interpreter" that enables you to write scripts in compiled languages
aklomp-base64
Fast Base64 stream encoder/decoder in C99, with SIMD acceleration
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
go
The Go programming language
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
openai-whisper
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
neovim
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than highway — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
highway is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.