Boost library

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Boost library, 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 8 complaints

Hard to build, install, and get CMake to discover Boost on Mac2026-06-21
Error messages are hard to decipher and IDE autocomplete chokes on it2018-03-14
Hard to get working correctly for the things that require it2017-09-18
Scrolling is hijacked, constantly pushing the reader past where they want to look2017-06-26
Page scrolling feels jerky on Mac Chrome due to scroll-jacking scripts2017-06-26
Very hard to integrate custom build steps2016-08-26
Projects using Boost compile and link very slowly, hurting iteration2015-08-18
Boost::spirit error messages are so unreadable they are hard to work with2011-12-30