Core Animation AND iOS AND SwiftUI

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  SwiftUI 3D is Flat

  2026-07-04

  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

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  The Morlocks Built SwiftUI

  2026-05-28

  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.