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It’s not just syntax sugar. There is a lot of compile time code generation running behind the scenes. It also means there’s a lot of hidden determinism where t
by chrismsimpson 5y ago
It’s not just syntax sugar. There is a lot of compile time code generation running behind the scenes.
It also means there’s a lot of hidden determinism where there didn’t used to be.
Storyboards were rubbish, I agree, but SwiftUI is more fundamental. Apple is abandoning the PostScript model which permeates every graphical computing paradigm (WinForms, GTK, Qt etc.), and if you don’t like programming with cotton gloves on, you’re basically not welcome.
All very much a shame from my point of view, because UIKit is easily the most powerful UI toolkit around. It’ll be interesting to see how long third parties will continue to be able link against it directly.