Lazarus IDE

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Lazarus IDE, 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 7 complaints

Unclear which of two options a new user should choose2026-10-22
New users face several confusing, overlapping documentation links and don't know where to start2025-05-12
Can't find the right checkbox to click in the IDE2025-05-11
Manually sizing and positioning many controls becomes tedious2023-12-25
Launching the IDE opens four floating windows, feeling untidy and cumbersome2019-02-15
Installation is a pain, debugging fails, and constant macOS optimisation prompts appear2018-05-30
Documentation is fragmented and half baked, making advanced features hard to use2013-07-28