SwiftUI
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“@Environment is a great tool.”
“But 1/ it’s much simpler for doing simple things and 2/ we can drop down to AppKit when needed. All in all, it’s good that we have it.”
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“SwiftUI is good, albeit not without issues, as long as you tolerate them.”
“You might also take a look at SwiftUI if you have an Apple device.”
Caveats and dissent
“SwiftUI because bloated and hacky, when it promised simplification and transparency”
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“The thing that obviates that is the trendy stuff works, yet, SwiftUI doesn’t.”
“it shares all the problems of declarative UI frameworks - mainly "where is the code?"”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- SwiftUI After 7 Years: A Story of Mediocrity 6 mentions
- Stop Making TUIs 2 mentions
- Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin 1 mention
- God Damn AI is making me dumb 1 mention
- macOS code injection for fun and no profit (2024) 1 mention
- Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023) 1 mention
Data: swiftui.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 12
“I still haven’t switched to SwiftUI though (except for some small stuff).”
“Some in particular (SwiftUI) are downright awful”
“I have a vibe coded SwiftUI chess repertoire builder app”
“@Environment is a great tool.”
“For small apps I use exclusively SwiftUI”
“SwiftUI because bloated and hacky, when it promised simplification and transparency”
“But 1/ it’s much simpler for doing simple things and 2/ we can drop down to AppKit when needed. All in all, it’s good that we have it.”
“The thing that obviates that is the trendy stuff works, yet, SwiftUI doesn’t.”
“SwiftUI is good, albeit not without issues, as long as you tolerate them.”
“Today I'm forcing myself to learn SwiftUI and type each character with my hands”
“You might also take a look at SwiftUI if you have an Apple device.”
“it shares all the problems of declarative UI frameworks - mainly "where is the code?"”