clangd

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with clangd, 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 3 complaints

Constantly inserts headers into source files, causing compilation errors2026-08-26
Getting jump-to-definition working on a real codebase requires a lot of manual configuration and is jankier than Visual Studio2025-10-10
Editors make the user wait while the language server deduces auto types on weak machines2025-01-11