xonsh

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2015–2023), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with xonsh, 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 10 complaints

Alt-. and kill-ring shortcuts don't behave as expected, so lost text and annoyance2023-08-31
Tab completion is not straightforward to use2023-08-26
Chdir is very slow, often taking a long time under WSL22022-10-07
Editor highlighting, formatters, linters and autocompletion break on its script files2020-08-07
Hooking into search behavior requires going through both xonsh and prompt toolkit, which is hard2019-02-04
Mixing bash and Python in scripts is far slower than plain Python subprocess2018-09-15
Shell feels very slow to interact with2017-11-01
Keybindings in nano and less misbehave, and mouse click and text selection randomly stop working2017-07-22
Terminal opens very slowly with a branch-timeout warning from git checks2017-02-13
Two modes are confusing, and variable names can silently shadow shell commands2015-08-12