Squeak

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2008–2023), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Squeak, 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

Building a custom VM needs deep C and CMake knowledge, and the build failed2023-12-31
Tooling felt confusing and frustrating enough to put the commenter off OOP2015-08-13
The image acting as both runtime and IDE was the hardest thing to get used to2014-12-26
Squeak's UI is horrible and its editors are inferior to modern text editors2014-12-26
Couldn't understand the interface; felt alien, dated, and full of unfamiliar conventions2009-07-15
Squeak's UI color choices are bad2008-08-28
Found the programming environment non-intuitive and hard to grasp2008-08-28