ESLint

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2020–2025), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with ESLint, 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

Runs slowly and has a poor user experience2025-09-08
Setup required whack-a-mole fixes across many config files to work with TypeScript2025-05-07
The ESLint 9 upgrade was very annoying to go through2025-01-03
Editing several config files and converting old configs for each upgrade, with broken plugin shims2024-12-26
Setting up ESLint with TypeScript and React rules takes hours or days and conflicts2023-12-15
Rule forces convoluted code to hide temporarily disabled code behind if statements2023-11-08
Rule gives so many false positives the author had to disable it2023-07-03
Constant squiggles and auto-fixes while typing interrupt flow and are hard to work with2020-06-18