[brightball]

Honest answer: I already knew them.

I’d used plain CSS for years following the Zen of CSS approach which I was very fond of and I was a big fan of SASS for simplifying it too. Dealing with browser quirks got old though.

The issue is that most CSS is approached from a perspective that you’re going to reuse a specific part over and over in your HTML as a single tag.

Tailwind realizes that this happens, but simply argues that in most code it happens in templated loops instead of all over your source code. So instead it focuses on reusable parts that cover all of the browser quirks and can be easily combined.

It’s such a boost to productivity and practicality that I can’t believe it hasn’t been around forever.

[hnedeotes]

Yeah, I don't feel the same pains though.