> Does SwiftUI really count as native on the Mac? My experience is that Apple has not invested enough for that to be true https://blog.timac.org/2022/1005-stat

> Does SwiftUI really count as native on the Mac? My experience is that Apple has not invested enough for that to be true https://blog.timac.org/2022/1005-state-of-swift-and-swiftui-ios16/ https://blog.timac.org/2022/1005-state-of-swift-and-swiftui-... iOS 16.0 included 226 SwiftUI apps. Several highly promoted features (such as complications on the Lock Screen and widgets) are now only possible using SwiftUI. Some new SwiftUI only frameworks (like Swift Charts) developed directly from internal Apple teams creating new SwiftUI apps, and factoring out useful components. > Regardless, inconsistencies between AppKit on Mac and SwiftUI on Mac are enough to make it not native, IMO. SwiftUI is not a wrapper around AppKit controls, although that is/was how some SwiftUI views are authored. Likewise, some recently added AppKit controls are actually wrapped SwiftUI views. There is an ongoing effort to unify macOS and iPadOS which became much more noticeable at the UX level in macOS 11. It is unfortunately difficult to determine which inconsistencies are deficiencies in SwiftUI and which are the "legacy" behavior of AppKit. Since SwiftUI is a system framework, we only see its evolution in spurts on an annual schedule.