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Re:Static Types in SwiftUI by fpgaminer on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:40PM (#21458114)
Yeah, bit of a shame. I took some time to go through Apple's tutorial, just to get a taste of SwiftUI, but I ran into Xcode crapping the bed every few minutes; having to clean the build folder every time a new source file was added; compiler bugs; and to top it all off there were a couple of places that the tutorial was outdated already.

And of course you need to be on the bug riddled Catalina to get any real SwiftUI development done (live previews).

UI development in the Apple ecosystem has always been a bit rough, but I've never run into _this_ many problems in such a short amount of time, all while following their official tutorial.

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Re:Static Types in SwiftUI by ta0xdeadbeef on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:06PM (#21459033)
I mean XCode has been a terrible experience for a lot of devs (C++ in particular) for years. I completely avoid it, when you need it for a build just invoke it from the command line. Some of the other stuff is tricky to set up outside the UI so you need it, but other than that, XCode is not worth the hassle imo.

Real shame too. I've talked about this with some of their tools team I went to school with. I don't know what's in the water in Cupertino but I don't think Apple devs are getting the same experience out of XCode as their actual users.

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