Prettier

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Prettier, 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 12 complaints

Each save takes a second or two to format2024-02-20
Prettier formatting of Django HTML templates is unusable and will not be fixed2024-02-20
Formatting YAML takes about two seconds to start and run2024-01-23
Finds Prettier too heavy-handed and hard to reason about2023-11-27
Forces line wrapping that makes code harder to read than unformatted2023-11-27
Automatic line wrapping unwraps lines the user wants wrapped and wraps lines they want unwrapped, with no way to disable it2023-11-27
Can't disable line length wrapping; a big width unwraps code the user wants wrapped2023-11-27
Formatter is very slow to run and buggy2023-02-09
Forces unwanted reformatting of function parameters, switching between inline and vertical layouts2021-10-19
Auto-formatter rewrites multiline JSX back to its own line-length layout, slowing the user down2020-06-19
Formats comments so they become unreadable, forcing manual edits2020-03-22
Formatter collapses a carefully indented object onto one line, making it less readable and forcing users to fight it2017-01-11