We all rushed to SwiftUI when it came out: it was the future, wasn’t it? New generations of programmers would be able to achieve more stuff with less code, and we, old-timers, didn’t want to be left behind.

SwiftUI is no longer the future—it’s the present, albeit a present that’s permanently catching up with the past. Though it’s improved a lot, creating truly polished applications still requires reaching out to AppKit and UIKit, two fantastic frameworks that we, old-timers, once tried become decent at.

It turns out we have the edge: look who’s laughing now.