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by saidajigumi 3956 days ago
But just as with C++, that's effectively an implementation detail, and irrelevant to the larger issues addressed. BEM itself is just name-mangling structured for humans to execute manually. (wait, WAT.) We're talking about the cognitive model and load that designers and developers have to deal with when authoring styles.

I see CSS Modules (and Radium and ...) as being a space for experiments that I hope will ultimately point the way to better "baked in" solutions. Similar to how ideas from Coffeescript were "merged back upstream" into ES6/ES7.