just

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2020–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with just, 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

Recipe lines run separately, so variables set on one line are unavailable on the next2025-10-06
Defaults to Git Bash or MSYS2 shell on Windows, which is unwieldy2024-08-24
Can't find indentation rules in the docs2021-02-14
New hires had to learn a separate tool, so people fell back to npm and Yarn and broke projects2020-12-21
Left input field is uneditable and navigation is broken across browsers2020-10-21