iOS has supported Swift for more years than it didnt. So nuts.
Its so crazy. Were still slowly migrating to Swift.
SwiftUI is great but youre right: its another layer on top of everything else achieved in Swift - the opposite of simplification. But hey, maybe its like with SHA: I dont know the algorithm, only a general purpose but I use it everyday. We dont need to understand everything.
I understand that, yet iOS itself didn`t have any particular _support_ to enable that. Apps have just been interfacing/bridging themselves with the proper ObjC frameworks. This is different today, iOS actually ships Swift (and SwiftUI) runtimes. (All that is nitpicking for sure)
And it still feels like a beta language running on top of a mature infrastructure.
Nah, iOS itself only shipped Swift libs once we got ABI (Swift 5?). Before that it was just a fancy ObjC precompiler
Wait what? This just melted my mind.
I`m pretty sure this was my first tweet about Swift:
