GNU Octave

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2016–2023), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with GNU Octave, 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

GUI is slow and heavy to interact with2023-03-11
CLI is clunky compared to shell tools, needing wrappers to automate tasks2021-01-03
Plotting is unusably slow compared to MATLAB2020-11-30
Octave is so slow that even simple MATLAB code is unusable2017-05-09
Octave ran so much slower than Matlab it was basically unusable2017-05-09
Official DMG doesn't work and Homebrew install lacks the GUI2016-11-19