# AMOS BASIC

5 Hacker News commenters recommended AMOS BASIC and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend AMOS as a fun, approachable BASIC that is much easier than C or assembly and often got them into programming.

## Why people recommend it

- Got people into programming (2 comments): "it is what got me seriously into programming in the first place" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951805)) "expose them to programming through AMOS or Blitz Basic" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240785))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Rust](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rust.md): 2039 recommend
- [Go](https://hackerapproved.com/p/go-programming-language.md): 1254 recommend
- [Python](https://hackerapproved.com/p/python.md): 1067 recommend
- [Zig](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zig.md): 743 recommend
- [TypeScript](https://hackerapproved.com/p/typescript.md): 574 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "AMOS BASIC", https://hackerapproved.com/p/amos/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).