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ClojureScript
Raised as a usability problem by 18 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2012–2025), in 19 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Starting ClojureScript needs confusing configs and slow compile timesUnreviewed
20122026- ClojureScript tooling is painfully slow to use2020-04-03
- Tooling around ClojureScript is difficult to use for the commenter2018-11-11
- Type errors fail silently in ClojureScript, unlike Clojure, causing costly bugs2018-10-31
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 18 complaints
- Hard to get into; seems confusing with its own separate ecosystem2025-07-06
- REPL is really slow and editor integrations throw many small errors2023-06-13
- Using the wider JavaScript ecosystem was a major pain because of Google Closure2023-02-13
- Errors surface far from the call site, making them very hard to debug2021-03-01
- ClojureScript tooling is painfully slow to use2020-04-03
- Error messages are at times incomprehensible to the programmer2019-08-25
- Tooling around ClojureScript is difficult to use for the commenter2018-11-11
- Type errors fail silently in ClojureScript, unlike Clojure, causing costly bugs2018-10-31
- Interop with web APIs and vanilla JS libraries is lacking, making development abysmally slow2018-08-17
- Each save-compile-reload cycle takes about 30 seconds, so changes are slow to see2018-02-07
- Tooling is esoteric, setup is painful, and error messages are sometimes confusing2015-08-15
- Tutorials force learning unrelated tools like Datomic, Emacs and Ring first2014-12-04
- Setting up the ClojureScript REPL is frustratingly hard, requiring manual configuration2014-10-24
- Getting ClojureScript tooling working with a browser REPL takes considerable effort2014-08-02
- Starting ClojureScript is hard; many confusing configs and slow unpredictable compile times2013-12-19
- Couldn't find a hello world guide showing how to build a first example2013-07-05
- Had to dig through forum threads to learn how to include goog.dom.query2012-02-28
- Getting started requires many libraries, source locations, command-line steps and compilation setup2012-02-27