Jsonnet

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2018–2024), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Jsonnet, 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 5 complaints

Tricks users into programmatic config but then string manipulation they expect doesn't work2024-02-03
Trace statements vanish unless their output is used; errors appear deep in unrelated call stacks2023-03-27
Hard to tell syntactic structure at a glance; ad-hoc syntax never sticks2023-03-27
Home page hard to read on mobile; menu icon hides and shows no options2019-04-14
Hard to get started, and tracing what code does needs careful effort2018-06-25