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foo4uyesterday at 1:46 PM3 repliesview on HN

Claude Code is pretty good at Swift + Swift UI. I created and have been iterating on a menubar app for myself that I plan to share with a small team. I'd prefer to do this native than go through a 3rd party solution.

I do have prior experience developing for iOS but that was pre-swift.


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deweyyesterday at 6:43 PM

I'm also just working on my first iOS Swift app (Mostly for myself, don't know yet if I'll make it public as it's just a clone of Swarm / Gowalla but based on OpenStreetMap data) and it works really well with Claude Code.

I'm not using the Xcode integration and so there's still some rough parts where build errors show up in Xcode and I then have to paste them into my Terminal.

When you are used to backend work...it's kinda fun to see an app come to life and run on your phone though.

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mrklolyesterday at 2:08 PM

Same thought I had while reading, don’t really see a big advantage here.

kylehotchkissyesterday at 5:28 PM

Thank you for your service.

We need more of you. Not more electron slop.