The article is definitely wrong on the DSL being able to be replaced by some function call. You need to be able to do conditional rendering in a convenient way.

The article is definitely wrong on the DSL being able to be replaced by some function call. You need to be able to do conditional rendering in a convenient way. The way SwiftUI’s DSL works means a lot of dynamic equality checks for updates can be statically resolved. Also in terms of magic values, Apple’s UI doesn’t have a fixed set of spacing values they choose from. They’ll have padding of 14px and 15px all over the place. It’s not practical to expect a developer to get them all right. And of course, this behaviour is easily disabled just by providing explicit values.