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Lept onto it from React Native when it first came out. Really like the core approach to layout and you get a lot of stuff for very little effort (if you do it Apple's way). Whether it makes sense I think depends on the platforms being targetted.

On recent versions of iOS it's capable of doing 99% of the stuff I'll ever want to do and it will look nice. Just as long as I don't want to step too far outside of what Apple thinks is the right way (tm).

macOS - on the other hand - is far more more buggy/inconsistent e.g. Focus with List's of TextFields. It is also missing a lot pretty basic macOS functionallity e.g. no way to implement drag 'n' drop in Finder'eque recursive outline views, open tabs or windows - in fact window management and routing is just not much fun.

So for iOS I'd not hesitate. It's good, better than React Native and getting better. It does't really feel like a half baked abstraction layer over the top of UIKit.

For macOS on the other hand; it's much less clear. It's missing so much. And then there is the Catalyst auto-translate iOS app's stuff, which is kind of a worry that the grand plan is the moment it's feasible to dump it on macOS, it'll be dumped. So still not sure I'd use it for anything sizeable. Hopefully though will have a clearer picture of Apple's intents for the platform after the next WWDC.




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