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Quartus
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with Quartus, 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
- License forgets activation and software crashes after updates, forcing hours of troubleshooting2026-05-28
- Quartus is annoying sometimes, distracting from learning hardware design2023-11-06
- Quartus tooling is unreliable, often expected to crash or hang2021-11-11
- Toolchain is hard to get running, forcing a slow VM on a Mac2020-12-16
- Built-in text editors in FPGA toolchains are terrible to use2018-06-09
- Free edition disables incremental compilation, making each change wait 5+ minutes2010-03-20