OSGi

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with OSGi, 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 5 complaints

People find the modular framework too complex, hard to learn and debug2026-01-17
Shading is very confusing for everyone involved2024-02-27
Manifest files and launch configurations are messy and must be re-imported after every change2019-06-08
Writing for OSGi is unpleasant, adding cruft and complexity on top of Java class loading2019-06-08
Developer finds the framework complex and unwieldy to work with2017-05-05