Adobe Flex

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2010–2023), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Adobe Flex, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Custom Flex components almost never support accessibility interfaces2023-02-16
Text reflows and pushes controls down unexpectedly, making layout behavior hard to understand2022-09-27
Component lifecycle is hard to understand, so developers misuse callLater and leave messy code2018-03-28
Flash-based framework was slow, insecure and poorly integrated in browsers2013-11-22
Flex apps show a loading bar and reimplement basic HTML form features2013-10-01
Debugging data binding in complex UIs becomes very hard, and intent gets lost2013-05-17
Hard to find docs or tutorials for making a simple module and function2012-01-18
Too many overlapping tools and component sets make it hard for developers to find what they need2011-12-19
Framework is bloated and slow, likely to run poorly on phones2010-12-22