Pascal

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2008–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Pascal, 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 6 complaints

Assignment := needs Shift and a non-arrow-like key, hard to type2025-04-20
One-character string literals are chars, so 'c' and '12' behave differently and confuse2022-12-19
Page text renders microscopically small on phone with no mobile layout2021-09-11
Simple tasks are a chore due to messy strings, memory management and verbose type syntax2020-03-24
Must predeclare typedefs to use pointer or complex types as function parameters, which is stressful and unreadable2019-02-25
Calls the original Pascal language awkward and unusable2008-01-17