Borland C++

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Borland C++, 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

Found the IDE absolutely confusing as a child, though the commenter blames their age2025-05-16
Code typed far to the right can't be scrolled to, so it can't be found again2022-12-29
Compiler errors could only be fixed by comparing code symbol by symbol with an example2017-03-22
Installer takes forever and needs setup files kept in temp directory for updates2015-09-11