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Programming tools
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2009–2023), in 7 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Programming tools, 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
- Spend most time figuring out why libraries fail due to hidden configuration requirements2023-04-09
- Beginners get confused by environment setup and dependency juggling, often giving up2022-01-10
- Programming tools require esoteric, pointless knowledge and are needlessly complicated to use2021-01-15
- Can't see what the program does while building it2019-03-10
- Compiling code is slow, so developers spend time waiting2017-03-26
- Installing a whole language just for one tool wastes time getting it working2015-09-14
- Setting up a compiler and editor is too frustrating and tedious for many people2009-02-01