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Also agree. That's what I meant about the leaky abstraction. The fact that some chainable things are a one way street... e.g. need a specific order... yikes. B

by keyle 4y ago

Also agree. That's what I meant about the leaky abstraction. The fact that some chainable things are a one way street... e.g. need a specific order... yikes. But considering the DSL is fully statically typed, wow. So it's a bit of give and take on that one.

msie 4y ago
Out of many sources, it was only the Stanford iphone course that demystified the terseness of the Swiftui dsl. The lecturer pointed out all the optional parentheses and optional arguments that could be omitted to make the declarations clean. Up until then i thought i was looking at weird structs. This is one problem i have with swift’s terseness.
- KerrAvon 4y ago
  I think one gets used to this as a convention / style over time. It does necessitate good contextual autocomplete, though.
- keyle 4y ago
  Completely agree. And it still hurts my brain. Amusingly, using other languages now, I'm finding I'm missing the implied nature of Swift at times.