OmniSharp

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with OmniSharp, 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

Becomes unusable and extremely slow on larger projects2025-10-17
Language server is extremely slow, orders of magnitude worse than VS and Rider2023-03-22
Discontinued C# extension leaves Linux users with a mostly broken, unusable experience2022-07-25
Takes forever to start, type checking unresponsive, and freezes requiring IDE reload2022-06-16
Crashes too often, forcing the user to restart it2022-03-13
Refactoring crashes and jump-to-symbol and extract class fail; only autocomplete works reliably2019-10-16
Crashes constantly, needs restarts, and takes long time and memory to start2017-11-19