UIKit
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Dec 4, 2025first mention
Sep 14, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“SwiftUI is much less capable at this than the old UIKit approach”
“Still sticking with UIKit here.”
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“I've recently plumped for UIKit (with bits of SwiftUI dropped in)”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) 1 mention
- Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin 1 mention
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) 1 mention
- Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2026) 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026) 1 mention
Data: uikit.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 9
“SwiftUI is much less capable at this than the old UIKit approach”
“Still sticking with UIKit here.”
“Completely native with SwiftUI and some UIKit.”
“Technologies: iOS, Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Objective-C, SwiftData, CoreData, Swift Concurrency, Swift Testing, XCTest, CloudKit, StoreKit.”
“Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, AppKit, UIKit, SwiftUI, CoreData, REST, Stock/Forex/Crypto”
“Technologies: iOS, Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Objective-C, SwiftData”
“Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, AppKit, UIKit, SwiftUI, Stock/Forex/Crypto”
“I've recently plumped for UIKit (with bits of SwiftUI dropped in)”
“UIKit”