A macOS/iOS developer with two decades of native development experience describes struggling to implement a Markdown-enabled chat application using Swift/SwiftUI, AppKit, TextKit, and WebKit before ultimately concluding that Electron provides superior text rendering and performance for rich text applications. The author argues that while SwiftUI works for simple interfaces, Apple's native frameworks become constraints rather than advantages for complex text-heavy applications like modern chat apps.
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A macOS/iOS developer with two decades of native development experience describes struggling to implement a Markdown-enabled chat application using Swift/SwiftUI, AppKit, TextKit, and WebKit before ultimately concluding that Electron provides superior text rendering and performance for rich text applications. The author argues that while SwiftUI works for simple interfaces, Apple's native frameworks become constraints rather than advantages for complex text-heavy applications like modern chat apps.