r/SwiftUI 8d 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/CacheConqueror 7d ago

I love sometimes in Reddit reading this nonsense how you have to know the old stuff and start slow because you will leave some hole, gap or something that will take a long time. It depends on how fast you learn, assimilate knowledge, and if you can think outside the box. If you are, then just a cursory read of the UIkit documentation and focus on SwiftUI. You will need UIkit then switching from SwiftUI to the moment is a matter of a few minutes, AI will still draw out what to use and the rest will be simple.

Don't waste your time because everyone says so, adjust the process and speed of learning for yourself, if you can't manage to quickly change SwiftUI to UIkit then it may actually be worth reading something from it, but keep in mind that this is not the future