Hammerspoon

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Hammerspoon, 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 9 complaints

Clicking repeatedly to find the right window was frustrating before the shortcut setup2026-03-14
Moving windows quickly and precisely is problematic in Hammerspoon2023-12-01
Simple window rearrangement takes about 10 seconds to complete2023-10-26
Scripts break whenever Apple changes the accessibility APIs they rely on2023-03-13
Scripting custom window functionality on macOS has been frustrating to get working2023-01-15
Takes a long time to learn Lua syntax and the Hammerspoon functions2021-12-12
Window management is very slow to respond compared with Yabai2021-12-12
Couldn't find an easy enough example to replicate the password-typing script2019-12-16
Hard to find documentation on how to use it2019-12-16