Oil Shell

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2021–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Oil Shell, 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

Docs are hard to read because of self-referential puns and confusing project names2024-11-02
Confusing naming makes it hard to work out what each component is for2023-03-18
Typos in variable names silently produce nil instead of raising an error2021-11-21
Docs are hard to find, incomplete, and missing built-ins like min and max2021-09-15