fmr founder of Pagedraw here... this looks amazing. I wish we'd built it! :)
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#12I’m one of the engineers that spearheaded this initiative inside of Apple. I just wanted to thank the HN community—I’ve been reading HN for 10 years now and it’s been formative in my development as a software engineer. If you’re at WWDC stop by the labs and say hi!
How would you compare this to React.js? In particular, how does SwiftUI approach the concepts that Redux solves [EDIT: in other words, state management]?
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#13Apple developers will be glad they get to rewrite their entire application with a new UI framework and paradigm or risk their apps looking garbage on the platform (and stop working by next release). This must be the .. fifth entirely new UI framework from Apple?
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#14I’m one of the engineers that spearheaded this initiative inside of Apple. I just wanted to thank the HN community—I’ve been reading HN for 10 years now and it’s been formative in my development as a software engineer. If you’re at WWDC stop by the labs and say hi!
Fantastic work you've done here!
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#15The question the whole web asks now: what does this mean for React Native devs
I bet it's going to stay relatively the same, for now. React Native still works across iOS and Android, which is one of the key features. SwiftUI is iOS only.
It's my understanding that a lot of the appeal of RN is also that it allows web devs who are fluent in JS to make mobile apps, so I guess that's not really comparable in SwiftUI either.
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#16The syntax example is still not as clean as QML, which is already a ten-year-old language (examples: http://qmlbook.github.io/ch04-qmlstart/qmlstart.html).
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#17Personally, as an iOS developer, this is by far the biggest announcement. Haven’t had the chance to dig deeper, but the comparison between the UITableViewController and that snippet containing just declarative code looks absolutely promising. The only downside is that we’ll have to wait one or two years before we can use it if older iOS versions still need to be supported. Let’s hope for extra quick adoption of iOS 1…
Do you have a link to the comparison?
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#18Other than a few-hour intro seminar on building iOS apps, almost 10 years ago, I've never written anything in Swift. The announcements around it today got the biggest reactions from the crowd. Is is really great, blasé, or too early to tell?
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#19To me this looks very similar to what Google is doing with Flutter.
Jetpack Composer you mean.
I bet by next IO, Flutter will get replaced by it, specially after the #KotlinEverywhere announcement and Kotlin/Native effort for iOS.
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#20I’m one of the engineers that spearheaded this initiative inside of Apple. I just wanted to thank the HN community—I’ve been reading HN for 10 years now and it’s been formative in my development as a software engineer. If you’re at WWDC stop by the labs and say hi!
Thanks. Really good job