[ithrow]

People are allured by the rapid prototyping aspects of Tailwind which is the main bait. It's pretty fast to see results immediately without openining the css file.

This an interesting psychological point to discuss IMO, we get lured to things that feel "fast" but actually aren't.

[philsnow]

That sounds just like Duolingo (it feels like you're making progress because you're getting better at the things that it's testing, but unless you try to participate in real conversations in the language, you're not making progress in an actually useful direction)

[dragonwriter]

> This an interesting psychological point to discuss IMO, we get lured to things that feel "fast" but actually aren't.

It's not so much “feels fast but actually aren’t” as “fast onramp that makes downstream maintenance slow”.

That people tend to be bad at balancing downstream costs against current benefits is well known, and that's even outside the context of business situations where the cost is attached to a role that decision-makers may expect to be out of before the cost is realized, and outside of social contexts like speed-of-this-iteration-focussed development methodologies that structurally encourage discounting future costs.

[machinelabo]

It is actually fast though. Just doesn't produce coherent design over time and creates a huge mess where design langauge is intertwined in symantic layout.

Hey, wasn't that the original intent of HTML+CSS? To isolate markup and design?