Guice

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2015–2023), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Guice, 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

Framework hides initialization control flow, so user can't figure out how to modify it2023-02-20
Method arguments appear from unclear sources, injected by framework based on class and annotation2022-05-31
Hard to trace where injected dependencies come from, requiring checking every constructor call site2022-02-08
Large Guice codebases become tangled, unclear what provides what2015-09-20