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SwiftUI After 7 Years: A Story of Mediocrity
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For engineers building Apple platform apps, this piece validates growing professional frustration with SwiftUI's reliability and maturity, suggesting that production-grade adoption still requires significant workarounds. The critique that even Apple's own official tutorial is broken raises questions about the framework's readiness for complex applications.
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SwiftUI's data flow system has become a confusing mix of property wrappers and macros that continues to change, undermining the promised single source of truth.
Performance and layout predictability remain problematic, with a head-to-head comparison showing UIKit outperforming SwiftUI.
Lack of backward compatibility forces developers to create shims and workarounds, with each new feature or fix potentially breaking unrelated functionality.
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