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Standard ML
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2015–2022), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Standard ML, 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 5 complaints
- Poor tooling and documentation, and unclear which implementation's docs apply2022-03-25
- Code isn't portable because the standard leaves implementation-specific features unspecified2020-10-26
- Standard ML toolchains are very hard to use on GPUs that lack CUDA2019-11-24
- Signatures and functors cannot live inside structures, forcing awkward naming workarounds2017-08-23
- Made simple things needlessly difficult to express in the language2015-02-24