Jinja2

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2009–2024), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Jinja2, 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

Every object is a mystery and templates are hard to maintain2024-06-21
Embedding Jinja templates in YAML forces people to edit production config through an awkward syntax2024-01-23
Making SQL dynamic at build time is hard; Jinja+SQL gives a very poor development experience2023-01-30
Custom tags are non-trivial to implement and poorly documented, forcing developers to read source2009-07-27