I did obj-c on a popular consumer app about 10 years ago. Recently had to make an app. I used async/await and SwiftUI heavily. Used observableobject and actors as well. It’s very nice, much like a React/typescript app. UIs used to be torture

I did have to build some things that I felt should have come standard. For example, I had to build a class that provides a thread-safe way to enqueue objects and process them in a background task, which used DispatchQueue internally.

By and large, it’s a world of difference from what it was and my experience has been joyful. Xcode cloud just worked so that’s cool. Profiling is wonderful (signposts etc). Could there be improvements? Sure. Are there other languages with better features? I think so. But I haven’t found myself longing much for something provided by other languages and platforms

Point is, I no longer dread iOS development. In fact, it’s quite fun.