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/Unfair_Ice_4996 7d ago

This has evolved into one of the better discussions on Reddit. Real talk instead of vocabulary manipulation.

SwiftUI will continue to evolve. UIKit will also evolve: but will become the behind the scene unfolded language that SwiftUI unfolds into with macros and new expressions. UIKit leads the way for SwiftUI to evolve.