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Discussion on: Web developers: with SwiftUI, would you consider learning Swift?

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Maegan Wilson

SwiftUI would cover all the Apple OSes: iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. My brief experience with something like React Native or other cross-platform is that I still need to know the native language at least a little bit, so I would think that it is still worth learning at least the basics of where Apple is going.

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Scott Tolinski

I didn't find that to be the case with React Native in small to medium sized projects, so I personally wouldn't invest too much time into something that keeps you in only Apple's world, but I can def understand why it's appealing to iOS devs. IMO (and I know others might disagree), you shouldn't be building for JUST iOS in 2019 when on the web we always want to support as many users as possible.

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Maegan Wilson

I think being cross platform is the way forward for companies.

I think there is value in having knowledge of how to program for the native platform is good as well.