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ASN.1
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2019–2025), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with ASN.1, 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 4 complaints
- Hard to tell which parts of ASN.1 are safe to use for a new application2025-09-06
- Protocols are confusing, poorly and inconsistently documented, with vendor variations that differ subtly2025-04-18
- Implementations are hard to use correctly, slow, buggy, with complicated APIs2022-01-14
- Syntax unrelated to popular languages, making it hard to learn2019-12-24