Comment on SwiftUI in appleOS 27 by Hammer

SwiftUI now does /some/ of the things real frameworks did 10-30 years ago. Like save documents. Like drag and drop. Like select text. AsyncImage was nice when AFNetworking had a category for it a decade ago.

What are we doing?

They made a big deal about retaining /some/ views now because it's too expensive to rebuild them and recompute layout. Yes. Exactly as real devs have been doing forever while the SwiftUI/React fanclub insisted rebuilding everything on the fly was "cheap" for 8 years (while getting 13fps scrolling).

Nothing about it makes sense to me. It hasn't provided a new foundation or capabilities, it's a performance downgrade across the board, when you hit a wall you run to real framework, and it's not any easier to learn or use.

SwiftUI is the most Too Big To Fail project I've ever seen. But let's push it another year and get #SwiftUI on some more resumés.