SAS

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2011–2024), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with SAS, 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

Takes a long time to find out whether something is possible2024-03-06
Docs and forums are so verbose that simple syntax answers are hard to find2020-07-12
Scrolling through hundreds of columns to find join fields is frustrating and tedious2020-03-11
Crashes randomly and throws irrelevant error messages for simple mistakes2017-10-25
Drag-and-drop tool easily generates horribly inefficient SQL without users noticing2015-03-11
IDE interface feels outdated and clunky, like it's from the 1980s2013-11-13
Inconsistent syntax across procedures, such as different ways to name output tables2011-11-29