NuGet

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2013–2021), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with NuGet, 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 8 complaints

Dependency resolution issues need occasional switching to Visual Studio to fix2021-11-15
Packaging felt painful and seemed to require the IDE, unlike npm or cargo2021-06-02
Managing NuGet packages becomes hellish for developers2020-01-28
Package restore fails silently with no way to retry or diagnose2019-11-21
Wastes hours untangling binding redirect problems caused by NuGet packages2019-10-15
Easy to end up with conflicting package versions in one solution2019-04-01
Still not as good as apt or Homebrew for package management2015-10-06
Dependency management is terrible, cluttering projects with downloaded dependencies2013-07-25