Diesel

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2019–2023), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Diesel, 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 6 complaints

Diesel's complex types produce incomprehensible error messages, making even mildly complex code very hard to write2023-03-20
Commenter couldn't understand the split between generated files and when to run CLI commands2023-03-20
Diesel is clunky and hard to use beyond basic queries compared to Django ORM2022-11-17
Poorly documented and very slow to compile even trivial example projects2022-04-17
Errors flood the terminal with pages of parentheses, hard to read2021-05-16
Type system hacking produces very confusing compiler errors2019-06-05