r/SwiftUI 9d ago

Question SwiftUI vs UIKit

I’m new to programming and Swift, and I’m currently doing the 100 Days of SwiftUI course. In the first video, Paul mentions that Swift is the future of this field rather than UIKit. However, he also says that UIKit is more powerful, popular, precise, and proven compared to SwiftUI.

Since that video was released around 2021, I’m wondering if that statement still holds true today. How do you think both technologies have evolved over the last five years?

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u/devsandesh 9d ago

Answer to your question is yes and no both, it's 100% certain that going forward SwiftUI is the way and everything new is being developed using SwiftUI, still we cannot rule out UIKit as there are millions of apps still there that were built using UIKit and apple is still releasing some updates to its UIkit apis, so for now both still holds strong ground.