Cordova

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2014–2018), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Cordova, 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 9 complaints

Automated native builds fail, and finding Cordova solutions to common build tasks is a nightmare2018-04-03
Tapping menu quickly darkens screen, hiding navigation; back button ignored2017-05-24
Cordova apps feel slow and laggy once users interact with them2016-11-27
UIWebView is slow and WKWebView is broken on iOS2016-11-05
Cordova API is too hard to use for real-time hardware display, performance suffers2016-09-20
Docs are confusing and out of date, making setup a pain2015-06-21
Hybrid web apps feel slow and need hacks to look native2015-02-20
Cordova apps feel unsmooth and not really usable compared to native2014-03-08
Native-style transitions and swipe gestures run too slowly on phones, making apps laggy2014-02-20