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Delphi
Raised as a usability problem by 24 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2012–2025), in 24 threads.
People raised many different problems with Delphi, 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 26 complaints
- Apps break on other machines with different fonts or themes unless developers are very careful2025-03-24
- Building simple controls like checkbox combo boxes requires hacks and lots of Win32 rendering2025-03-24
- Architecture strategies for separating business logic from the UI were undocumented, forcing users to figure them out2025-02-15
- Apps took 10-15 seconds to start, with frustrating disk clicking and splash screens2024-08-04
- IDE freezes while IntelliSense processes, so suggestions and error checks lag and Windows kills it2023-08-22
- Constant pain hitting the no-circular-dependencies limitation while developing, with weak refactoring tools2023-08-21
- Adding dependencies required hunting down files and manually installing each one2023-04-28
- Must scroll through long property list to reach frequently needed properties2023-04-27
- Scrolling through many properties to reach commonly needed ones wastes time2023-04-26
- Mixed indexing, confusing allocation and implicit OOP make the language hard for the programmer to use2022-09-11
- Download requires entering lots of personal information and solving a robot check2022-08-18
- Delphi 7 has a more cluttered interface than Delphi 52021-09-23
- Fixed x/y/width/height widgets cut off translated text, forcing manual form checks per language2021-04-04
- Installer disappears when switched away from, leaving a half-installed product2020-02-14
- Project config always defaults to 64-bit, forcing manual switch to 32-bit every time2020-02-02
- Confusing that two similarly named exit functions exist, forcing the programmer to worry which one gets picked2019-04-09
- VCL was inconsistent, making development maddening at times2019-02-15
- Apps ignoring DPI sizing become broken and unusable with Large Fonts enabled2018-05-02
- Error messages are arcane and hard to understand when debugging2017-11-01
- Can't find how to switch to single-window mode2017-08-10
- Code completion is slow, sometimes refuses to work, and error underlining is worse2017-08-01
- Must create account, verify by email, and log in just to download a PDF2017-02-28
- Reinstalling and activating on new PC took three tries and emails to support2016-07-04
- Layered generations of the system behave differently, so you can't tell what works until you try2015-10-12
- IDE is slow and buggy to work in2015-03-19
- Couldn't figure out how to navigate links in the early web browser2012-02-23