Clang

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Clang, 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 6 complaints

Back button steps through section anchors, needing about five clicks to leave2025-10-24
Can't find documentation for clang's nostdlib option2024-01-18
Error message colour codes bleed into the background when screen inverted, leaving streaks2020-03-03
Clang warns on legal boolean switches, with no way to disable that warning2014-03-10
Demo controls are unusable, making the game essentially unplayable2013-09-19
Hard to find the name of a warning flag needed to disable it2013-04-27