IPython

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2011–2024), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with IPython, 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 11 complaints

Typing cd with full quoted paths is much slower than shell tab completion for common commands2024-09-19
Remote debugging needs hacking internals or SSH tunnel workarounds2016-02-19
Users get thrown by command versus editing mode, accidentally creating cells above or below2014-05-06
Users must learn separate edit and browse modes and cell type choices, slowing typing2014-05-05
Removed 'add cell above' button and focus no longer switches on insertion, hampering productivity2014-05-05
Hard to find the release notes page2014-04-02
Interpreter's line break mode is tiring to work with2014-01-26
Equation entry is slower than in Mathematica2013-03-07
Ctrl+A jumps cursor to a confusing empty line on the right side2012-12-12
Installing the previous version with matplotlib didn't work out of the box on Mac or Windows2012-07-01
Having to prefix every system command with ! is too cumbersome2011-01-15