Pick the greatest SwiftUI addition

Generated on 8/2/2024

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The greatest addition to SwiftUI this year could be subjective, but several notable enhancements stand out:

  1. Custom Containers: SwiftUI now supports custom containers, allowing developers to create more flexible and reusable UI components.
  2. Mesh Gradients: The introduction of mesh gradients provides a new way to create visually stunning backgrounds and effects.
  3. Scrolling Customizations: There are new APIs for fine-grained control over scroll views, including the ability to detect changes in view visibility due to scrolling and programmatically control scroll positions.
  4. Improved Interoperability: Significant improvements have been made to the integration of gestures and animations between SwiftUI and UIKit/AppKit, enhancing the ability to use these frameworks together seamlessly.
  5. Swift 6 Language Mode: The new Swift 6 language mode brings compile-time data race safety and other improvements, making it easier to adopt in SwiftUI apps.

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