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> Whatever it is, SwiftUI isn't it.

I think this opinion is heavily shared by Swift developers now, but the messaging every WWDC is always "Swift and SwiftUI is the best way to build apps for Apple Platforms", etc.. If you have to keep telling everyone what they don't believe is true, it's a sign there's a problem.

It feels like someone with a lot of organizational power is disconnected from the pulse of the community. SwiftUI is undeniably clean in a lot of ways, it presents beautifully and fits on slides well, but that matters less and less, and this all wasn't really working out even before LLMs disrupted things.

Well the problem now is Apple would need to admit they made a mistake. And Apple does not make mistakes.
Yes, they don't ever openly admit mistakes.

But they do quietly drop or fix them, covertly acknowledging they were mistakes. Often with this messaging: "we have this new shiny thing that is even better than the old shiny thing (that was really a turd)".

Remember "garbage collection"? Or "modern syntax"? Or CocoaJava?

And with hardware they had their "come to Jesus" moment a while ago. And then hit it out of the ballpark with Apple Silicon.

The one for software is still upcoming.

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