IBM mainframes

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with IBM mainframes, 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

Official mainframe tooling is poor, with cumbersome linking and build processes, and weak IDEs2024-02-06
The software is arcane and confusing to work with2023-05-02
Block-mode interaction feels like a rude step backwards from interactive systems2017-08-04
People must still interact with an extremely poor user interface2017-07-17