Gleam

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2023–2025), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Gleam, 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

Hard to find the download link on the website2025-12-13
Erlang definitions are complex and dynamic, hard to map to Gleam types2025-10-20
Syntax feels unintuitive at first glance2025-02-28
Hard to understand; not composable, everything below use gets absorbed into it2024-07-27
Confusing communication about typing made it take an hour to understand2024-05-28
Use syntax is confusing; hard to tell what code does after desugaring2024-03-04
Couldn't find information about the feature they were looking for2024-01-20
Use syntax feels weird and unintuitive to the programmer2023-12-21