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Raised as a usability problem by 21 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2012–2022), in 18 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Hard to find how to build a GUI in SmalltalkUnreviewed
20122026- Hard to find out how to build a GUI in Smalltalk2016-11-20
- Smalltalk GUIs are inaccessible to blind developers, blocking use2015-06-03
- Smalltalk environment is hard for beginners to use2015-01-31
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 20 complaints
- Too many concepts and abstractions on each line to understand basic code2022-09-24
- Syntax is quirky and non-intuitive, with colons, pipes and named block parameters to write2022-03-02
- Slow, required their own editor, and produced non-native UI2021-11-15
- Hard to find out how to build a GUI in Smalltalk2016-11-20
- Steep learning curve, with poor tutorials and documentation making it harder2016-07-25
- The mandatory UI is unfriendly to keyboard-only use2016-01-30
- Listed shortcut Ctrl+D deletes the selected text instead of executing it2015-08-21
- Error message is confusing about what the user did wrong2015-08-21
- Clicking DoIt with no text selected gives a cryptic parse error2015-08-21
- Smalltalk GUIs are inaccessible to blind developers, blocking use2015-06-03
- Smalltalk environment is hard for beginners to use2015-01-31
- Too much syntax makes it hard for the reader to grasp the shape of code2014-12-26
- Controls look and respond inconsistently, some acting on mousedown instead of mouseup2014-11-10
- Struggles to figure out where to put files, use the editor, or handle source control2014-03-03
- Couldn't easily find how to print to standard output2013-10-05
- IDE tools are outdated, cumbersome, and the text editors are bad2013-10-02
- Must manually select the text and then press a button to run code2013-08-15
- Selection lags about two seconds behind the mouse cursor2013-02-22
- Too many clicks to reach code, or many windows to track2012-08-17
- Images cocoon code so it can't be version controlled or fit existing editors2012-04-27