I would really hate to be learning Swift now. I started using it around the v2 release and I think it had nice syntax & was relatively small and opinionated.
Now there are so many ways to the same thing it must be a nightmare to teach. Each way of doing the same thing is in its own way nice, but they seem to just be accepting every half-way decent proposal for things they've already solved.
I feel like SwiftUI had brought a number of challenges that have massively complicated the language and you can really feel it when you bump up against things that have been tacked on to make SwiftUI work (which it looks like they are getting around to smoothing out now - multiple trailing closures is very a much a problem compounded by SwiftUI).
It's a shame, I loved this language from v2 -> v4, v5 was a good release but started to muddy the waters and now its just getting continually worse.
Now there are so many ways to the same thing it must be a nightmare to teach. Each way of doing the same thing is in its own way nice, but they seem to just be accepting every half-way decent proposal for things they've already solved.
I feel like SwiftUI had brought a number of challenges that have massively complicated the language and you can really feel it when you bump up against things that have been tacked on to make SwiftUI work (which it looks like they are getting around to smoothing out now - multiple trailing closures is very a much a problem compounded by SwiftUI).
It's a shame, I loved this language from v2 -> v4, v5 was a good release but started to muddy the waters and now its just getting continually worse.