[mqrs]

I was coming from mobile app development when I tried Tailwind (with Vue) and I knew right away that it was architecturally sound. It's the only CSS framework I've ever used since, and I think it's very future-proof.

That said, I really don't like how it's being described as "utility-first". It's very ambiguous language to me even as an experienced programmer, and I've never really seen that phrase used elsewhere. Besides, all that the authors really seem to mean by "utility-first" is that it is "composition-based" as opposed to the more common inheritance-based approach to working with CSS.

[corytheboyd]

It’s just a catchy phrase to help evoke the right emotion and make you remember the framework, which I think it does a good job at. It made sense to me at least in the context of reading about the framework, and besides no single hyphenated term is going to accurately describe a technical system.