iOS development from a web perspective

This is an ongoing list of impressions I have while learning iOS development with UIKit. I'm deliberately learning Storyboard/UIKit prior to SwiftUI, assuming it's roughly equivalent to learning standard HTML and vanilla JS prior to React.

Note - These are first impressions, so they may not be the most accurate characterizations. Take them with a grain of salt.

• Storyboard is surprisingly more convenient than programmatic UIKit components
• Does anyone write XIB XML by hand like HTML?
• I spend a ton of time dealing with permission UX
• iOS development feels like web development without CSS
• The Swift available keyword is like if TC39/browsers turned caniuse.com into a web API
• Apple Developer Documentation + NSHipster == MDN
• The Swift compiler is helpful, just wish it was faster
• Swift docstrings in Xcode are fancy and I like it
• Xcode builtin docs are convenient. Hard to break the alt-tab-to-browser-search habit but once I did it was faster
• Xcode and simulator downloads are way too big, making network speed an unacceptable barrier to access

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