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by rmckayfleming 1249 days ago
Pretty much every thread on Tailwind will devolve into debates on CSS development/maintenance practices. My take is that Tailwind enables a style of CSS development more akin to using a dynamically typed language. It's really great for whipping things up and for one offs. And for so many tasks, that's all you need!

But of course, there are situations where it becomes unwieldy. I'd wager that a lot of the problems people have with Tailwind are more social in nature. Which are valid problems! It just means that you need some other solution for that. Analogously, many of the benefits of static typing are social in nature; notably in enforcing interfaces between teams. I suspect people are looking for a similar thing for CSS. But that doesn't invalidate the use cases where Tailwind is particularly handy.