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If you've used UIKit to any large degree, how bad SwiftUI is, almost a decade later, continuously punches you in the face. About 20% more time to write initially, for 90% less bugs and potholes, and I've tested this with iOS devs who never used UIKit before too. Now with AI, there is even less of an excuse IMO.

Leave SwiftUI to the settings pages. The gulf between AppKit and SwiftUI in macos desktop I'm not as sure about.



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