SwiftUI After 7 Years: A Story of Mediocrity | Hacker News

A Hacker News thread said SwiftUI is fine for simple production apps but still awkward for complex layouts, animations, and scroll-heavy interfaces.

Some commenters argued that after seven years SwiftUI still has not matured enough to fully replace UIKit in real-world production work.

Others said Apple’s framework evolution looks healthier than Microsoft’s stalled attempts to replace Windows UI stacks, and defended declarative UI.

The discussion compared SwiftUI with React, Flutter, UIKit, and imperative approaches, focusing on whether declarative frameworks can truly take over.