I assume your goal with [0] is to be able to say `ViewContainer()` and have it wrap an `EmptyView`? You can do that like the following: class ViewContainer<V

I assume your goal with [0] is to be able to say `ViewContainer()` and have it wrap an `EmptyView`? You can do that like the following: class ViewContainer<ViewType: View> { var view: ViewType init(view: ViewType) { self.view = view } } extension ViewContainer where ViewType == EmptyView { convenience init() { self.init(view: EmptyView()) } } With this code, writing `ViewContainer()` will produce a `ViewContainer<EmptyView>`. Writing `ViewContainer<Text>()` will fail with an error (as expected). Note that since this is statically-typed, the following will fail: let container = ViewContainer() container.view = Text("wat") If you want to be able to do that, you'd have to write something like let container = ViewContainer(view: AnyView(EmptyView())) container.view = AnyView(Text("wat"))