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Twisted
Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2009–2023), in 13 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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Docs cover only absolute beginners or experts, missing useful middle groundUnreviewed
20092026- Documentation is a mess, making the library hard to learn and use2023-08-23
- Documentation only covers absolute beginners or experts, leaving users unable to find useful docs2013-08-20
- Hard to find needed classes in long, poorly organised documentation list2010-07-27
Documentation is lacking, so users struggle to learn how to use itUnreviewed
20092026- Twisted's web layer is hard to use and has been for a long time2015-02-25
- Forces the whole app into Twisted's style, hard to compose and refactor, confusing stack traces2011-01-08
- Twisted's documentation is lacking, so people struggle to figure out how to use it2009-09-16
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 15 complaints
- Documentation is a mess, making the library hard to learn and use2023-08-23
- Users must hunt for Twisted versions of libraries, splitting the ecosystem2015-04-18
- Twisted's web layer is hard to use and has been for a long time2015-02-25
- Coworkers got stuck prototyping in it on Linux and wasted huge amounts of time2014-01-24
- Hard to mix synchronous and asynchronous code; async requirement spreads through the whole codebase2013-08-20
- Documentation only covers absolute beginners or experts, leaving users unable to find useful docs2013-08-20
- Tutorial cramming too many concepts into contrived examples creates confusion for new developers2012-12-28
- Tutorials are too long and convoluted, so newcomers spend hours before writing anything2011-10-30
- Hard to follow async code flow and error paths with confidence2011-04-12
- Forces the whole app into Twisted's style, hard to compose and refactor, confusing stack traces2011-01-08
- Hard to find needed classes in long, poorly organised documentation list2010-07-27
- Hard to follow deferred chains; deep API makes code confusing to read and maintain2009-09-23
- Steep learning curve makes the framework very hard to learn and use2009-09-16
- Twisted's documentation is lacking, so people struggle to figure out how to use it2009-09-16
- Code using the framework is hard to read and understand, with poor documentation2009-09-12