Introducing Apple UI Insider
A new newsletter that draws every picture twice, once with a clean-room renderer, once with Apple's own frameworks, and publishes what's different
Apple Platforms AND Core Animation AND SwiftUI
SwiftUI 3D is Flat
SwiftUI's iOS and macOS 3D is per-view projected 2D output composited by painter's order, with no shared-space depth-sorted hierarchy, and the APIs that would fix it are visionOS-only, proven with a rendered counterexample and four executable witnesses
The Morlocks Built SwiftUI
The cynical read is that Apple kept the real tools and handed us toys. But the same engineer built Core Animation in 2007 and co-built SwiftUI in 2019, and that one fact says the opposite. On why the foundation never left, and the debt that comes due the day the abstraction breaks.