# Impossible Machines

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Impossible Machines and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a clean, interesting way to declare behavior for the physical world, and say it is fun to experiment with.

## Why people recommend it

- Interesting idea for programming physical world (2 comments): "This is cool! I think it would be interesting to expand the language of the world." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50213480)) "This is actually very interesting idea you had." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214552))

## 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, "Impossible Machines", https://hackerapproved.com/p/impossible-machines/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).