Tauri

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2021–2025), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Tauri, 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 8 complaints

Scrolling pages in Tauri's Linux webview drops to single-digit frame rates2025-11-29
Safari webview lags Chrome, causing UI inconsistencies in the app2025-05-28
App feels awful and slow on Linux due to WebKitGTK performance2024-09-17
Video player built with Tauri is unusably slow under WebKitGTK on Linux2024-08-03
Terrible documentation for the v1 release makes learning it hard2024-07-12
Docs and videos didn't reveal that App Store distribution is unsupported, wasting days2022-12-10
Valuable API details are hidden in obscure places and some APIs are confusing to use2022-12-10
Can't work out how to proceed beyond installation in the docs2021-05-14