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TextKit 2 – The Promised Land

by @krzyzanowskim blog.krzyzanowskim.com published 2025-08-146 min read

After 4 years with Apple's TextKit 2: The promised 'better' text engine has unstable scrolling, unreliable height estimates, and viewport issues so bad that even Apple's TextEdit suffers from them. Good architecture, but the implementation makes it frustratingly difficult for real-world apps.

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