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by sylens 1103 days ago
A few times I looked into Swift development but got a little confused on where to start - Swift? SwiftUI? Both? I don’t really have a desire to make an iOS app but would love to cut my teeth making a macOS app, maybe something like an RSS reader to start.
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I'm working through the book Hacking with macOS from this same author (Paul Hudson), which is a Mac-focused Swift/SwiftUI book. It's not free, but it's extremely well-done so far.
Apple's tutorials have a good mix of teaching both, along with a section "Creating a macOS App": https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui.
Swift is the language. SwiftUI is one of the UI frameworks. You need to know the language before you can build apps using the UI frameworks.