Imagining an Open Source SwiftUI(inessential.com)

6 pointsby pcr910303vor 6 Jahren2 comments

https://inessential.com/2020/07/11/imagining_an_open_source_swiftui

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I saw a clone of SwiftUI that targeted web apps - that is probably a good starting point.

I spent a lot of time early this year experimenting with SwiftUI, Core ML, etc., all good stuff. What I don’t like is the barriers for a small developer dealing with the Apple Store issues. The Apple Store setup is not so great for a part time developer who might expect just a few sales but still want to share an app.

For me, Apple’s killer products are the Apple Watch and AirPods, otherwise I would be happier in Linux land. Apple would do a large service to users to allow configuration of an Apple Watch via the iCloud.com web site (e.g., trigger buying an app, and the watch would deal with downloading and installing).

Note: this is the open source project I mentioned: https://github.com/SwiftWebUI/SwiftWebUI

Rockvolevor 6 Jahren

That is an incredible amount of work. You can see the effort required by google to make Flutter do this - plus it has the benefit of the dart language being simultaneously engineered for the task. Google has spent millions and put their top engineers on the problem and it looks to me to be an uphill struggle. Flutter has 8k open issues and 32k closed issues.