11 engineers on Hacker News describe using Snap first-hand: 2 endorse it, 6 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Snaps get there but the cold boot time and occasional errors annoy me AF”
regret · personal · Tooster · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“snap has two problems: closed backend, metastasizing silently, pulling the rug silently under me.”
regret · personal · bayindirh · 2026-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“every time I click the "update all" button on Ubuntu Software and it tells me it can't because the Snap Store is running”
regret · personal · mort96 · 2022-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Snaps are certainly a cursed technology. I've had one update in production and break things outside of our regular release process.”
regret · production · baggy_trough · 2022-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Snaps and the continuous issues with them was the main reason for me to leave.”
regret · personal · bkuehl · 2022-04-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've also grown skeptical of Snap (especially on workstations and servers”
regret · production · neilv · 2020-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried out Yesod and Snap a while back and while the frameworks themselves were pleasant to work with”
endorse · personal · 3131s · 2017-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In a very short time I had a very fast service using almost no memory.”
endorse · production · bobfunk · 2011-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“set your Snap and Apt proxy configuration to a non-existent value”
neutral · production · setuid · 2024-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I installed VSCode as a snap on my Fedora install and it worked fine as far as I could tell.”
neutral · personal · hollerith · 2023-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We're using the Snap web framework, Heist templating and a couple of open source libraries to talk to Google and SMTP.”
neutral · production · ivanstojic · 2011-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?