I’m an old school Cocoa dev. I even wrote the UI for a bunch of the built in apps on your iPhone.

I love SwiftUI. I know it inside and out and I’ve talked to its creators. It’s not “done” yet but it is a joy to use. And its power is in saving you from doing “the other 80%” of the work for all the myriad a11y jobs most people don’t bother doing.

Yes of course it panders to web devs. Apple has the same problem MSFT did when webapps with js were invented: if good software can exist in the browser, who cares what OS you have?

SwiftUI is existential for Apple. They are betting the farm on it and Liquid Glass in the hope that native apps are more appealing to users than web apps.

Apple dies if everyone moves to a Google desktop and mobile stack.

  > I’m an old school Cocoa dev. I even wrote the UI for a bunch of the built in apps on your iPhone.

i do have to say though that while i love it for the paradigm and design, i don't love it for the bugs/holes of which are many compared to uikit/appkit..

swiftui itself needs a "snowleopard" release imo