SwiftUI: The difference between List and LazyVStack
An archive of a conversation I had on Mastodon
1 min readMar 1, 2023
It started with this Toot
I first got a reply from Chris from objc.io
My reply which start a whole other conversation about why I switched the main tilmeline in Ice Cubes from a LazyVStack to a List
And then Tony Arnold from Reveal jumped in as he’s working on a new feature in SwiftUI for Reveal
The gist is that LazyVStack is just lazy, but this is not even close to the UICollectionView / UITableView, List (which is still backed by a UIKit UICollectionView). Any of those reuse / cycle views are you need them. LazyVStack just grow in size, forever. So the longer it is, the more you scroll, the slower it get!
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