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I too am in my late 30s and I've been writing Swift for 7 years now and the language itself is not buggy, at least anymore.

SwiftUI has it's issues and one is platform support. If you want to support anything before iOS 13 (even that has limited support) then you are out of luck. The only SwiftUI I have shipped is for WidgetKit and WatchOS, both being somewhat forced upon you.

While it can be cumbersome to do simple things in SwiftUI that were easy to do in UIKit, I haven't found too many bugs. Most issues I have run into are on the Xcode side.

If you work with any Apple platform it is worth pursuing. If you want to just learn and use Swift it does have decent support on Linux thanks to being able to bind with C libraries. Windows support is there, but is very much in its infancy.



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