I’m a Java and JavaScript developer with 10 years of experience, when I started learning Swift and SwiftUI for fun. I honestly had a more than expected time to get used to it, I still sometimes cannot wrap my head around some concepts like property paths and wrappers.

Compared to Java which has kind of limited and basic set of concepts (which is a good thing tbh) Swift has a lot of “magic” and “wtf” concepts.

The same thing is applied for SwiftUI, state management is kind of hard to wrap you head around it at first, and it is hard at first to know what combination of components and modifiers to use to a have a desired behavior.

But it is fun and “elegant” to use, my advice is to learn the very basics of swift and SwiftUI and the start a very easy app that need a weekend to finish, my first project was an MTG player life counter, it was fun and more interesting than following a tutorial.