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Discussion on: Is CSS objectively bad?

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Sebastian Vargr

Layout is tricky, I find it really hard to make a judgement without any language comparisons. :/

We could look at how well I does what it is designed for, but then we need to define some stories first.

You come close with some examples, but I would love to see some formatted as, “when as z I do x I expect y”.

I totally agree that the language suffers from horizontal growth problems similar to JS.

That is, there are too many hyper specific features, making it likely that as devs we will not always use the best tool for the job.

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stereobooster

Layout is tricky, I find it really hard to make a judgement without any language comparisons. :/

You can compare it to flutter or subformapp.

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Sebastian Vargr • Edited

Nice, thanks, i will give these a look.
Giving them a quick initial look, i'm not sure they fill the same stories as CSS.

Which stories would you say they share with CSS?
Besides the obvious one being "as a developer i want to use a tool/text to define layouts".

Edit: Edited the story wording a bit

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stereobooster • Edited

Flutter from my PoV has the same scope as CSS. They implemented material design in Flutter, for example.

(Not sure I fully understand the question)

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Sebastian Vargr

I'm trying to establish if these are comparable by using UX theory on libraries/languages to see if the use-cases match.

It might be subject for a longer investigation, so lets leave it there for now.
Anyhows thanks again, these are good food for thought. :)