Earlier today, I was posting some ad-hoc thoughts about how I prefer SwiftUI layout over programmatic AppKit on Mastodon. I expected this to become a blog post later today. But instead, I find myself thinking along the lines of: “am I holding this wrong?”
Marin’s Swift Heroes 2023 talk was just uploaded yesterday. It’s called “A 100% SwiftUI App”, and I believe you should watch it, because it’s not actually about what it says on the tin!
Marin’s a charismatic presenter and excellent storyteller. (He also later admits it’s his 65th tech talk, wow!)
There are a couple of gems:
One is the use of the (ficticious) AppKit property leftShiftPressedInCombinationWithTouchBarWhereAvailableRepresentsMouseEvent = 6 to illustrate that over the past 35 years, AppKit has become quite weird, actually.
Another is Marin’s summary of the whole situation right afterward:
Time makes perfect;
but also adds a hundred properties to every class.
– Marin Todorov, 2023
So I’ll spoil one more detail: “A 100% SwiftUI App” is not actually a hard sell to do all of your apps with 100% SwiftUI. Quite the opposite.
I won’t spoil why, though.
TableFlip v1.5.0 just passed App Store Review. Direct customers got the update already. Thanks to Marin Todorov for helping on this version! The better performance with large tables, HTML export, and overall fixes are of his making ❤️