Lapce

Raised as a usability problem by 25 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2021–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Lapce, 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 25 complaints

UI feels clunky, and adding LSPs requires hunting through limited extensions2025-01-29
The editor's user interface needs improvement before more features are added2024-02-18
Hangs or crashes within minutes of use2024-02-18
Window hangs on launch and can't be repositioned by dragging2024-02-18
Very noticeable latency when navigating code and typing2024-02-18
Pressing colon in normal mode opens command palette instead of vim command line2024-02-18
Typing a folder path into Open Folder silently fails on macOS, and no menu offers another way2024-02-18
Interface won't display in some window positions; icons lack tooltips, and custom include folder setting is hard to find2024-02-18
Title bar hides under the side icon bar and can't be recovered by clicking2024-02-18
UI and fonts render so large under X11 after rewrite that it's unusable2024-02-18
Scrolling becomes laggy and unusable on a decent sized Rust project2023-12-28
Keyboard internationalization is broken, making the editor unusable with non-English layouts2023-11-14
Popups, type hints and inserted characters distract on almost every keypress and block code2023-11-14
Text font renders weirdly on non-retina displays, making the editor unusable2023-11-14
Clicks don't behave the way users expect, so the app doesn't feel native2022-03-21
Command palette doesn't respond to arrow keys2022-03-18
Clicking the green button on a Mac makes the whole window full screen2022-03-17
Modal editing forces an extra mode switch to start typing text2022-03-17
Actions fire on press instead of click, so users can't cancel by dragging away2022-03-17
Can't select drives in open dialog; must type drive letter, and delete key fails2022-03-17
Arrow keys don't work in the command palette or file dialogs2022-03-17
Unable to navigate the command palette via keyboard2022-03-17
Default Vim-style keybindings are unintuitive and feel mentally taxing until rebound2022-03-17
Command palette ignores arrow keys and user can't find extension search2022-03-17
Autocomplete became extremely annoying in the latest version2021-12-14