Red programming language

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Red programming language, 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

Download is a zip with an app whose binary won't run on Apple Silicon2025-08-31
Compiling a hello world program takes 36 seconds2025-05-20
Syntax is painful to read and harder to understand than modern C++2023-07-17
Broken links made it take many clicks to find examples2023-07-17
Useful docs are buried under poorly named links2020-08-08
Steep learning curve; no single complete guide, so newcomers struggle to get started2017-12-19