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REPL
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2009–2024), in 8 threads.
People raised many different problems with REPL, 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 8 complaints
- Editor REPL connections are cumbersome to set up for newcomers2024-05-22
- Very confusing and error-prone UI, making it hard to inspect what objects are2022-01-05
- Terminal REPL is white-on-black with scary version messages mentioning clang2021-03-25
- Editing mistakes in a REPL are painful because it is not a text editor2021-01-03
- Notebooks and REPLs are bad to use, constantly spewing errors at the user2020-01-30
- Enter key both inserts a newline and executes the command, causing ambiguity2019-07-23
- Exiting REPLs like Node and Elixir is unintuitive for users2017-05-23
- Non-GPL programs have poor line editing in their interactive prompts2009-07-13