SwiftUI Still Isn’t Production-Ready

Not for the reasons you might think!

Steven Curtis
3 min readMay 10, 2022
Photo by Clément Hélardot on Unsplash

SwiftUI is simply fantastic. It’s a great way of producing applications quickly, and seems to be the future for creating iOS applications. Previews are fantastic, and the speed of production seems unparalleled.

We see Apple producing many tutorials and WWDC videos based on SwiftUI. It’s rather fantastic how the community is building around the technology.

So we should press delete on our project, and start again next Monday — right?

Let’s take a look at some of the main reasons to be wary of SwiftUI in 2022. A complete argument for you to present to your CTO? Nah. A whistle-stop tour of some things to think about. Yup!

A memory leak? No problem.

Imagine using a version of Xcode with a major memory leak attached to SwiftUI. If it’s Xcode 13 I think that’s fine, they’ll fix in in 13.1. What do you mean, they only fixed it in Xcode 13.2.1?

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