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Jacob Bartlett
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Jacob Bartlett writes Jacob’s Tech Tavern, a personal blog at blog.jacobstechtavern.com about programming and career. Since 2024, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 75 times, most often “Swift – A great language strangled by governance?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Jacob Bartlett's posts on Swift's direction and on SwiftUI versus native UI work, including a post that quotes Chris Lattner on Swift's growing complexity.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Swift – A great language strangled by governance?3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-10-28
- A Tech Interview That Doesn't Suck3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-12-23
- The Terrible Technical Architecture of My First Startup3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-27
- Is SwiftUI as fast as UIKit in iOS 26?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-28
- Make Loading Screens Fun with the SwiftUI Game Engine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-11
- Atomics vs. Actors vs. Mutex: The Synchronization Framework2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-20
- Oh Shit, My App Is Successful and I Didn't Think About Accessibility (2024)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-15
- 2025: The Year SwiftUI Died2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-24
- Method Dispatch in Swift: The Complete Guide2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-05
- The Swift Runtime: Your Silent Partner2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-06
What Hacker News says?
Been there before, and wrote about the experience - https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/yes-actually-means-no-th... US vs UK investors are night and day. UK investors only want to see profitability to protect their cautious capital
Comment linking /p/yes-actually-means-no-the-curious
on “UK's hardware talent is being wasted”Submitted The side hustle from hell as a story · 349 points
HN discussion“Swift has turned into a gigantic, super complicated bag of special cases, special syntax, special stuff…” — Chris Lattner, 2024 https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/apple-is-killing-swift
Comment linking /p/apple-is-killing-swift
on “What’s new in Swift 6.2”Submitted A 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159` (2024) as a story · 211 points
HN discussionSure, here you go - https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/apple-is-killing-swift
Comment linking /p/apple-is-killing-swift
on “Apple is Killing Swift”Submitted Swift – A great language strangled by governance? as a story · 100 points
HN discussion> Try to build a ui where you need non-trivial and non-standard behavior and SwiftUI will fail. I think this may be a misundertstanding of what SwiftUI is. SwiftUI makes it convenient to create apps that look and behave in a way that align with Apple's HIG using controls like `List`, `Form`, etc., but nothing makes you use any of those. For example, it's straightfoward to build a game engine on SwiftUI. https://blog…
Comment linking /p/swiftui-game-engine
on “Native all the way, until you need text”Submitted Automate all the things with Swift Subprocess as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift for Android vs. Kotlin Multiplatform as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple is Killing Swift as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who needs AI psychosis? I gave myself VR psychosis as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Backend-Driven SwiftUI as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted My wife gave me 100 days to make it as an indie creator as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Oh Shit, My App Is Successful and I Didn't Think About Accessibility (2024) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Stole Your ChatGPT API Keys as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is a Crash? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How did Apple cut launch time by 30% in iOS 27? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Terrible Technical Architecture of My First Startup as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Terrible Technical Architecture of My First Startup as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data: A Swift-foundation deep-dive as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted SwiftUI Scroll Performance: The 120FPS Challenge as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jailbreak Your Enemies with a Link: Remote Execution on iOS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maths, Metal, and Mandelbrot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing the Perfect Modular iOS Architecture as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Touch to Pixels: UI Pipeline Internals on iOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is SwiftUI as fast as UIKit in iOS 26? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Copy-on-write teaches you everything about Swift Internals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Method Dispatch in Swift: The Complete Guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2025: The Year SwiftUI Died as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When to Kill a Project as a story · 2 points
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