List view versus UITableView

Now that we've got a comprehensive understanding of SwiftUI, let's take some time to compare the benefits of SwiftUI against Apple's original UI Framework UIKit. In this section, we'll take a look at the simplicity of a List() View in SwiftUI and compare this to how we'd construct a UITableView() in UIKit.

Basic UITableView implementation

Let's start by checking out exactly how we'd create a list, similar to the one found in our ListView.swift file.

Although we can make use of Storyboards to create TableViews, for this comparison, we'll give all our examples programmatically so that we can provide a more direct comparison with the declarative syntax we&apos...