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C and C++ build tooling
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2018–2026), 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 C and C++ build tooling, 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
- Compiling and building C and C++ projects is high friction and messy2026-02-15
- Developers nest dependencies via git submodules, making it hard for users to handle them2025-09-19
- Build and dependency tooling is atrocious and not made for humans to use2018-05-26
- Text-based inclusion makes builds break in partial rebuilds2018-03-08