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Catalyst is the stopgap before SwiftUI. Eventually we'll see all Apple apps migrated to SwiftUI from AppKit, UIKit, and Catalyst.

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SwiftUI is still better called beta software at this point, to the point where 1password abandoned it mid rewrite to go to electron. It's gonna be a few more years at least.

Considering that many corporations are just, now, beginning to take up Swift, after it has been out for seven years, I'd say this was a pretty sure bet.

I like SwiftUI. It shows a lot of promise, and I look forward to releasing products, written in it. I don't think it's especially mature, and maturity is important, when you need to release ambitious projects.

I'm not really in a hurry, though. I'll be getting around to working in SwiftUI, and I tend to do well at the things to which I apply myself.

Yeah, possibly, but seems 50-50 that that Catalyst stopgap is until Apple thinks iPadOS plus some virtualisation is good enough to replace macOS.

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