Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.

The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”

@jaredsinclair Great post! Small clarification on explicit view identity: the .id() modifier acts in *addition* to the structural identity defined by the view’s position in the view hierarchy. So .id() can never make two non-identical views identical, only the other way around. These two views have different identity despite having the same .id():

if flag {
MyView().id("one")
} else {
MyView().id("one")
}

@nicklockwood @rhysmorgan Yeah it’s not the same, just similar.

But just wait until this proposal is accepted. They will become super powerful and I bet will be commonly used

https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-inheriting-the-callers-actor-isolation/68391