Lazarus

Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 14 threads.

People raised many different problems with Lazarus, 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 16 complaints

UI toolkit has accessibility bugs making it practically unusable with a screen reader2026-10-19
Must recompile the whole IDE every time a new control is added2026-02-19
Build command sits under the Run menu, which the commenter finds confusing2025-06-02
Downloads a folder of files instead of an app, and macOS reports it as damaged2025-05-14
Toolbar buttons are too small and cluttered; user couldn't find a size option2025-03-25
No usable docs or tutorials; can't find which widget or function to use2025-01-11
Poor ease of use for beginners; the interface is hard to navigate2023-12-24
Features are spread across many shortcut keys, hidden in different menus2021-08-19
Dockable interface is shockingly bad, bordering on unusable2021-04-04
Entire IDE recompiles every time a third-party control is added2021-04-03
Floating windows get hidden behind other windows, so they are hard to find2019-07-31
Windows installer is hard to extract without running it, needing third-party tools to work portably2019-03-05
Multi-window layout gives a frustrating first impression to users of standard IDEs2017-08-10
Installing from Linux package managers is frustrating; the official repository download works better2017-02-15
Fails to build the basic form, requiring many manual steps to fix install2017-02-15
Multi-window IDE layout is annoying and differs from the one shown on the site2016-02-19