[eonpi]

If you are starting a new App, you should find it quite easy to get going with SwiftUI. Once you get the hang of it, you can really appreciate the simplicity for doing most things, especially when compared with the way things were, and still are the done in UIKit with UIViewControllers (viewDidLoad, willSomethingOrOther); but some other things you can find to be tricky.

The documentation is fair enough within Xcode to figure most things out by yourself, but there are plenty of resources online when you feel like needing some help.

I like the updates they are doing to Swift Data for the next round of OS updates, these should make things even easier and more straight forward to build certain Apps.

But yes, there are things to watch out for, make sure you learn the foundations well (e.g. @Observable, @State, modifiers), or you may find some unexpected things happening with no clear explanation.

Also keep in mind that not everything available in UIKit is available in SwiftUI, but there is plenty to cover lots of use cases nowadays.

You can also do some SwiftUI stuff outside Macs, there was this effort to bring SwiftUI to terminal, as in Linux. Ashen was the name of the project, but I believe that it hasn't received many updates lately. There are also recent efforts for Gnome if I remember well. And there are also some other general Swift updates that are very interesting, like Swift for micro-controllers or whatever they are calling it, and being able to create static Linux binaries (and do so directly from your very own Mac) without any dependencies that can run on any distro (or so they said IIRC), and built with musl for good measure apparently... again, or so they mentioned in one of the WWDC videos.

So... not so bad, but with all that said, I would like to add that, I really would prefer not to have any AI forced into any of my devices with the next update.