Composer

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2013–2024), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Composer, 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 8 complaints

Composer's command line interface isn't intuitive for the person using it2024-05-04
Composer updates take multiple minutes, making routine dependency updates painfully slow2023-09-10
Authenticates per domain, so separate private packages on one host can't have separate credentials2023-06-07
Package installs are very slow and can exhaust memory, forcing swap setup2020-06-10
Composer is slow, making the developer wait during installs2020-05-05
Installs are very slow and it uses excessive memory2019-05-15
Updates everything when user wants only one package; arcane version syntax; excruciating slowness2018-06-14
Package management is worse than npm, per the commenter2013-11-12