[jkirsteins]

I recently wrote a full app (Wordle clone) in SwiftUI using the iPad Playgrounds app as a personal challenge. I didn't have a lot of experience with UIKit, and literally 0 with SwiftUI.

There was definitely a lot of time spent looking why basic things are not working as expected. There are many counterintuitive things to it, I think, and some bugs.

But overall, as a newbie to iOS development, it was a fairly nice experience. I am skeptical I could've iterated/developed something complete (despite the issues) as fast with UIKit.

I only wish they made it open source. It feels like it would really benefit from being run more like the open source Swift frameworks, rather than this opaque update-once-a-year thing.