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Structs and Property Wrappers

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One thing that I still have a hard time processing is the seeming contradiction that Views are structs, but to get around the normal restriction of a struct being immutable, you can use a property wrapper like @State to allow you to write to that property. I read this article about structs: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/books/ios-swiftui/why-does-swiftui-use-structs-for-views

But it doesn't address this point of using property wrappers to get around the immutable state of structs. Is there another article that goes into this in more detail?

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Thanks, this paragraph helps me understand what's going on:

When we put @State before a property, we effectively move its storage out from our struct and into shared storage managed by SwiftUI. This means SwiftUI can destroy and recreate our struct whenever needed (and this can happen a lot!), without losing the state it was storing.

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