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This is an interesting idea, but if you look at bigger examples, such as the todo-list example, the code is littered with `async` noise, calls to `borrow()`, and other fancy stuff like reducers. (A todo list is easily expressed in SwiftUI without much ceremony) Seems like scaling up to actual apps would be a mess.

https://github.com/wishawa/async_ui/blob/main/examples/web-t...

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That example is indeed pretty noisy, but partly due to my premature optimization. The operations of adding, editing, and toggling Todo items are all O(log N)[1]. Things could be simpler if I’d just take the O(N).

[1] O(log N) for “our” code. I don’t know what the browser’s rendering/layouting engine is doing.

In general Async UI will still be noisier than SwiftUI or React, but I hope only in the way that Rust is more explicit/verbose than other languages.

Hmm, surely a SwiftUI todo list could be implemented using O(log n) operations with ease. Anyway I think that example might scare people off, so definitely try to simplify it if you can :)

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