VB.NET

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2013–2023), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with VB.NET, 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 6 complaints

Too many methods and dot-style syntax that must be looked up and relearned2023-09-14
Developers found the converted VB.NET hard to use, with a terrible library2023-09-12
Syntax and parameter orders changed, making it unintuitive to switch between old and new2019-12-12
Dim inside a loop only initializes on the first iteration, which is ambiguous and counterintuitive2017-02-02
Native Split only accepts a single character, so newline strings must use the VB6 interop function2016-06-12
Generic parameters grouped in round parentheses are extremely confusing to read2013-12-09