alt Hacker NewsIt's SwiftUI that is at fault here[1][2], not native apps in general. I wrote my native app in Qt C++ and QML and showed that it is *significantly* faster and uses significantly less RAM than similar web apps[3]. So, no, web apps, in general, are slower and uses more resources than well-engineered native apps.
[1] https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/SwiftUI%20is%20convenient,%20...
Replies
StilesCrisis • today at 1:57 PM
Qt is the opposite of native. It's just reimplementing the look and feel of a native app, but the seams are extremely visible.
➕ show 5 replies
> It's SwiftUI that is at fault here, not native apps in general.
The article you cited is from 2022 and so is irrelevant, since SwiftUI's performance profile completely changed as of xOS 26.
Claims like "It's hard to build a performant SwiftUI app" get into skill-issue territory, but more importantly, the reality is there are only "SwiftUI-first apps". All non-trivial SwiftUI-first apps will also use UIKit/AppKit as needed, typically for capabilties that aren't yet available via SwiftUI.