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Looking to get into iOS app development 

Go for swift or react native?

Not intending to publish to android (for now)

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PS by react native I mean react native w/ Expo

Infrequently. At this time, I'm more interested in shipping one off ideas and publishing to App Store.

Sounds like Swift is the way to go. I've suffered enough in the node ecosystem (which I still love and use on a daily basis), that I really don't need to add React > Apple compatibility issues.

how often do you plan on coming back to the codebase?

Swift: your app will still compile in a year or two
RN: your app will need tons of sdk updates to compile again in 6 months

if you’re planning on working on it continuously RN is great though

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What specific things will I be grateful about?

If you are purely wanting to work only with iOS, go with Swift.

You’ll be grateful you did. There’s a learning curve, specially if you dive into Swift 6.

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Out of curiosity, which features do you enjoy?

My experience has been in TS / Python / Solidity land

i really like SwiftUI, but haven't used React Native

SwiftUI definitely still has some limitations and may require some annoyance + non-Swift code depending on the features you need

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Super based. I opened Xcode and was dreading shipping in there.

What’s the recommended dev workflow?

Cursor for dev and Xcode for building / preview in a separate screen?

Also, what’s the fastest “getting up to speed” for swift ui + apple Xcode configs? Enough to ship and know what I’m doing. Don’t need to know everything

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Interesting, everyone else here recommended Swift. Which are the criteria guiding your recommendation to use React Native?

React Native (Though you can vibe code through your way through it much easily now)

If you’re looking to publish only for iOS then go swift. If you want to publish for android in the future or even both react native might be the way to go.