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Re:If you want to create a button from scratch, you must fir... by ben_w on Thursday July 16, 2026 @06:15AM (#48932548)
A nail, from what I hear about that side of things, but on the Apple side I could substitute the dual replacement of UIKit and AppKit with SwiftUI that somehow still isn't good, plus separate pressure coming from all the cross-platform options between iOS and Android.

At this point, I think HTML+JS is able to be a better choice than SwiftUI for most things: Yes, some stuff will still need to go to a native layer, but that's true for HTML as well. ;P

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Re:If you want to create a button from scratch, you must fir... by whstl on Thursday July 16, 2026 @09:24AM (#48934219)
Yeah, I agree. SwiftUI looks exactly the same mistake Microsoft made with MFC/WTL/VB6/WebForms/WPF/Silverlight/WinRT/UWP/WinUI/MAUI.

Is it a better interface and developer experience? For sure. Is it gonna replace the previous API? Doubtful.

I have to admit I'm still ignoring it though.

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