It’s hard to claim that JSX is more “just JavaScript” than SwiftUI. If anything I’d say it’s the opposite.
Swift evolved the language hand in hand with SwiftUI so everything you see is standard there.
And in my humble opinion they did a knockout job. And this is coming from someone whose spent a ton of time evangelizing React.
SwiftUI is far more beautiful, pleasant to write, and well thought out. It does have a couple awkward points but it’s not the “DSL” or it’s defaults (it’s just Swift) which is fine, it’s all on the dev tooling, performance, debugging, random bugs, and error messaging side of things (ie, maturity).
> It’s hard to claim that JSX is more “just JavaScript” than SwiftUI. If anything I’d say it’s the opposite.
Yeah, that's fair. What I saw was that SwiftUI added special constructs to this DSL for if and ForEach statements, something which just isn't needed in JSX because it 'escapes' to JS fairly well.
Definitely think they did a pretty decent job of it - I couldn't have done better (and I can't judge whether a better job could have been done, I know next to nothing about Swift, hence my initial question), but it does strike me as unfortunate that they needed to specially re-create basic language features.
You can map over things much like react, the ForEach is not quite as clean but you can still write your .map function in the body function and then just pass it where you want. I think the strict typed nature makes some of these things a little less flexible but it wins in many other categories.
I’d say give it a twist! If you like React you’ll like it, just has different trade offs.
Swift evolved the language hand in hand with SwiftUI so everything you see is standard there.
And in my humble opinion they did a knockout job. And this is coming from someone whose spent a ton of time evangelizing React.
SwiftUI is far more beautiful, pleasant to write, and well thought out. It does have a couple awkward points but it’s not the “DSL” or it’s defaults (it’s just Swift) which is fine, it’s all on the dev tooling, performance, debugging, random bugs, and error messaging side of things (ie, maturity).