Elvish

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2020–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Elvish, 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 4 complaints

Documentation doesn't say whether bg returns a fid or writes to stdout2025-05-05
Quoting a dash to join variable parts feels counterintuitive and unlike bash2024-05-10
Setting it as login shell makes sessions exit immediately, locking user out2021-05-19
Hard for newcomers to find basic startup configuration file location2020-09-10