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Literate programming
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2018–2022), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Literate programming, 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 4 complaints
- Hard to edit, with no syntax highlighting, autocomplete, or IDE help2022-03-22
- IDE features or syntax highlighting break once code is written inside literate documents2020-06-06
- Content doesn't fit mobile screens, forcing horizontal scrolling back and forth2018-06-12
- Hard to find specific code when debugging because prose is in presentation order2018-04-01