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stupid question : but is there any specific reason why swiftui is not open source ?

I am working with jetpack compose these days and it is both open source and documented. I am not sure how I would work with it without that, it is quite a big departure from the legacy ui api.

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Probably because it’s a competitive advantage for Apple to keep to themselves.

I wonder how much of an advantage it is practice ? It is one such toolkit among others, like React or Compose. It is different from making the whole OS open source.

I guess that since the benefit would be to make third party devs job easier, the incentive is not that great for apple .. devs will write mobile apps even if they have to write them in assembly.

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