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Inform 7
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2016–2020), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Inform 7, 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
- Ambiguity forces constant consulting of documentation to know which sentence is valid2020-09-19
- Writing games in the English-like syntax is frustrating and inefficient for programmers2019-07-13
- Writing games in English-like language is frustrating and inefficient for capable programmers2019-07-13
- When code fails to parse, it is maddening to figure out how to fix2019-05-22
- Feels counter-intuitive: looks like natural language but has a rigid syntax2018-05-25
- Natural language syntax is so fuzzy that user must guess how to phrase code2016-07-22