ATS programming language

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2014–2021), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with ATS programming language, 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 7 complaints

Two navigation menus repeat the same links, so it is unclear which to use2021-08-18
Left banner overlaps the content, making it nearly impossible to read on phone2021-08-18
Compiler error messages are incredibly cryptic and hard to understand2020-03-30
Writing non-trivial code in ATS is rage-inducing due to bad ergonomics and naming2019-09-20
Compiler spits out some of the worst error messages the commenter has seen2018-01-03
Logic-style type syntax produces clunky dummy bindings and mismatches the host language2016-07-17
Syntax is hard to read and so verbose it hurts productivity2014-04-14