Raku

Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 13 threads.

People raised many different problems with Raku, 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 17 complaints

Lands in a wall of links and gets lost navigating the docs2025-12-21
Module/package distinction is hard to understand from the docs2023-08-08
So many ways to solve problems that code is hard to understand2023-08-07
Raku example code is hard to read; unclear quoting rules and what it prints2022-01-05
Hard to skim or jump around the course because pages lack arrow-key navigation2021-01-14
Twigils and sigils stacked together make variable names hard to read and reason about2019-10-12
Silently switches to slow BigNum math with no warning, making code run 50x slower2018-04-11
Heavy use of special and unicode symbols in operators makes the syntax hard to read and recall2018-01-23
Too many interchangeable ways to write the same operation, making it confusing2017-12-05
Reusing the private keyword for a different meaning would confuse programmers2016-04-02
Scroll bar removed and horizontal transitions with no hint, so users can't tell how to navigate2016-04-01
Pressing arrow keys on the page is not intuitive2016-04-01
Confusing sigils and inconsistent class syntax make code hard to read and understand2015-12-27
Arrow keys and Ctrl-P/N history and line navigation don't work in the REPL2015-09-04
Arrow keys don't work in the REPL, making it nearly unusable2015-09-04
Language described as still unusable after a decade of development2012-05-05
Outsiders find the Perl 6 site and its links extremely confusing about Perl 5 and Perl 6 relation2009-09-19