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Discussion on: Why Tailwind CSS

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Bit Wombat

This writing is excellent, thanks Shawn. Subtlely packed full of ideas that are deep-dives themselves.

My problem with Tailwind is that it's really a language. A language on top of two languages. And so I expect we'll have TailWind linters, TailWind re-formatters, TailWind toolchains, TailWind style guides, TailWind auto-completion... as a vetran of this industry, may I just say: SIGH :)

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swyx

thank you so much!

yeah i hear you. that said, the alternative is really a custom "language" you cook up in your own team/company/projects, which is virtually guaranteed to have worse design, tooling, compatibility. people aren't just adopting this stuff just for the sake of it.