TeX

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with TeX, 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 4 complaints

Programming the engine is messy, tightly coupled, and hard to parse2026-04-30
Minimal install forces manually hunting down and installing each needed package dependency2022-08-20
Documentation is hard to navigate and poor for discovery or learning2017-06-04
Finding relevant information in the reference books takes a long time2017-06-04