SWIG

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2007–2023), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with SWIG, 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

Automating bindings was a nightmare due to poor documentation and confusing syntax2023-07-18
Syntax is terse and convoluted, and hard to search for2023-07-18
Interface files must be written by hand and are hard to debug2019-05-07
Generated bindings need ever more configuration, so hand-writing is less work2017-05-03
Typemap configuration has dark corners that are hard to get right2007-04-14