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TextKit 2 - the promised land

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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