As we mentioned in the previous chapter, declarative syntax is used by many languages. A relatively recent framework, Google's Flutter, took on the declarative syntax approach and the wider developer community was immediately hooked. With this, it was only a matter of time before other frameworks started to follow.
At the time of writing this book, Google has just announced Jetpack Compose for Android, which itself adopts the same approach to UI development.
Now, let's take our first steps into programming with SwiftUI. We'll start by getting to grips with Xcode, learn the basics of how to create a new project, and start to write our very first SwiftUI code!