MFC

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with MFC, 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

APIs were non-intuitive, hard to learn without a good book2025-12-08
Over-complicated design that gives no real benefit to developers building interfaces2024-08-16
MFC was impossible to use and its documentation was hard to find2024-05-17
OO GUI framework is very hard to use2021-11-15
MFC was overwhelmingly bad for building GUIs, needing repaint message handling2020-10-19
Compiler errors are indecipherable, and macro edits make debugging so hard that rewriting is easier2020-03-06
Adds complexity; simple tasks still require arcane Win32 calls2015-04-30