SDL

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with SDL, 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 4 complaints

High DPI code in SDL is confusing and practically undocumented2015-11-11
Full screen games can't be minimized or alt-tabbed away from on Linux2013-08-13
Must unwind its abstraction to understand what it does, nearly as much work as writing it yourself2013-01-28
Main-thread-only call restriction was buried in docs, causing hard-to-diagnose failures2010-05-20