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Dialyzer
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2018–2024), in 12 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Error messages are obtuse and missed errors give no way to find themUnreviewed
20182026- Error messages are not as clear as they could be2024-08-05
- Dialyzer error messages are usually very confusing to read2024-01-09
- Error messages are counter-intuitive and hard to act on2023-07-23
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 11 complaints
- Error messages are not as clear as they could be2024-08-05
- Dialyzer error messages are usually very confusing to read2024-01-09
- Error messages are counter-intuitive and hard to act on2023-07-23
- Warning output is hard to read, making type problems difficult to understand2023-04-13
- Cryptic, verbose error messages that take an hour to decipher2022-12-31
- Error messages are stupidly obtuse, and it misses errors without saying how to find them2022-06-01
- Error messages are unclear and esoteric, and the tool can be slow2020-09-12
- Error messages point to the wrong function, actual problem is several calls down the stack2020-03-14
- Errors show success typings without saying what is actually wrong2019-07-04
- Static type checking tooling feels clunky to use compared to other languages2018-06-14
- Dialyzer's error messages are unhelpful and hard to act on2018-04-07