K programming language

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2020–2024), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with K programming language, 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 8 complaints

Symbols and I/O functions look like numbers, hard to read and remember2024-10-06
Incorrect code often yields only 'error' or 'not implemented' with no detail2024-06-01
Everything took far longer to do than in Numpy/Pandas; syntax felt unintuitive2024-06-01
Enums and anymaps are a nightmare, and no type hints make APIs hard to use2020-05-03
Terse cryptic syntax with no standard verbose expansion, hard for beginners to read2020-03-30
Operators like min and max behave unintuitively across types, making code hard to understand2020-03-09
The & operator meaning both 'and' and 'less than' is very confusing2020-03-09
Code snippet requires holding many hidden details in memory to understand2020-03-09