Modern CSS is amazing. It empowers us to build incredible experiences on the web, but as CSS becomes more powerful, we are beginning to see a new weak point.
When I got my first job as a web developer, it was common to have to come up with different hacks to work around the limitations of CSS. Those times are long gone. Modern CSS is amazing. It has powerful layout algorithms, 3D transforms and an incredibly capable set of animation primitives.
Most of the limitations of modern CSS don't actually have anything to do with its capabilities. Instead, it has to do with how we write it. For this reason, the future of CSS might not be text files, but visual editors.
You might be ready to call blasphemy and close the tab in anger, but if you stick around i'll do my best to make the case.
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