Slime

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 20 years (2007–2026), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Slime, 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

Inspecting a class yields a dead list of raw text that is awkward to interact with2026-06-03
Functions deleted from source keep working in the live image, so breakage only shows after restart2023-08-11
Pressing 'e' to evaluate an expression in a frame is bad UX2023-01-07
Pressing wrong shortcuts moved code unexpectedly and blocked manual parenthesis editing2022-11-12
Could not get SLIME working in Emacs on a new laptop, with no help available2021-02-09
Hated using it when learning Lisp, compared unfavourably to Visual Studio2015-08-26
SBCL is designed around SLIME and the commenter finds it virtually unusable without it2007-10-28