[vagrantJin]

> Good software engineering is super important, more-so than ever I'd say,

This smells of complexity to-justify-my-paycheck thinking about software. Css and html go well as seperate documents which makes things like theming and maintenance work but not frustrating. Why do we need the tooling overhead if the gains are marginal? SCSS gave css the powers it needed to be flexible but Tailwind sounds like classic cool-kiddery just like react.

[mercer]

I was here for all the discussions about how React went against the idea of mixing html and js, but once I started using it and grokking how that wasn't really the case, I found React to be so much more pleasant than what had come before. I mean, I still avoid it if I can, but that's not React's fault.

The fact that most front-end frameworks implement some kind of React-ish approach should at the very least make you wonder if dismissing it as 'cool-kiddery' is perhaps a bit too broad a swipe.

With Tailwind, at first I had similar concerns. I used it a bit and it seemed okay, but went back to the good old fashioned way of doing things. Then, in a later project, I decided to give it a proper shot and it measurably increases my productivity, reduces complexity, and reading articles about why it's not 'separation of concerns' (in many cases) convinced me I had no real basis for being against it other than being a curmudgeonly old-skool guy.

It's totally fair to stick with what works for you, but perhaps dismissing both React and Tailwind as 'cool-kiddery' is more a 'stuck in your ways and insecure enough to need to justify it' kind of thing than it is a reasonable perspective. Sometimes new things /are/ better!

[rvense]

The tool overhead of Tailwind is extremely small. I don't use SCSS anymore though, I thought it was too complicated for what it brought, and I didn't like the way it encourages nesting.

React etc. are extremely nice if you're making complex applications for the web. Of course it can be overused, but I'd say that some kind of SPA framework (and state management framework) is a requirement for the work that I do.