Cocoa

Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2008–2019), in 13 threads.

People raised many different problems with Cocoa, 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 14 complaints

Users with poor vision can only enlarge main-pane text, not other text or interface elements2019-12-09
Text APIs are so cumbersome that developers resort to messy subview setups2019-02-03
String-based Cocoa APIs let developers make mistakes the compiler won't catch2017-10-04
Cocoa backend was basically unusable at the time2017-07-13
Changing a simple color forces developers to build something custom from scratch2017-04-15
Scrolling to end of large file makes user wait repeatedly while loading2016-12-05
Writing UIs in code is hard because there is no layout system for positioning2016-11-29
Docs lack big picture; reference guides too abstract to give practical value2013-12-14
Method names are huge and syntax is bizarre, so simple operations need constant lookup2012-04-20
Requires a lot of upfront knowledge of patterns and tools to get started2011-07-30
Building an app without nib files is really hard in Cocoa2011-07-30
Layout tools are too limited, so developers must build their own layout system2011-06-28
Hard to know what to connect to what in Interface Builder2011-04-04
Redrawing or closing forms in callbacks crashes or loops infinitely; behaviour is unpredictable2008-12-18