I have :). First I did UI work with Qt at Pixar on the animation tools. Then I wrote a couple apps (http://audulus.com mostly custom, https://sculptura.app mostly SwiftUI, ongoing of course). Now I'm working on a Rust UI library: https://github.com/audulus/rui. Source: about 2 years ago

Ok I'm not Raph but, FWIW, my 3d sculpting app is written using SwiftUI (https://sculptura.app), which is not a view around a database (in fact it was previously UIKit... SwiftUI is so much better). I recently implemented a piano-roll editor in SwiftUI: https://github.com/AudioKit/AudioKitUI/tree/main/Sources/AudioKitUI/Controls/PianoRoll. I have little doubt a DAW could be implemented in SwiftUI easier than with... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

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