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by Rauchg 1019 days ago
> Turns out Vercel are trying to kill solutions like Tamagui

No one is trying to kill Tamagui. Why would we want that?

> the higher ups there are investors in Tailwind

I don’t know any investors in Tailwind at Vercel. I’m certainly not one. I don’t think they’ve even taken outside investment. And it’d be against our ethical and fiduciary responsibilities to favor one solution over another on that basis.

> are trying to consolidate styling around it for their own ecosystem benefit

Tailwind is a great solution that’s earned the hearts and minds of the community, and that’s why we include it as an option in `create-next-app`.

It’s an option because you can bring your own styling solutions to Next if you’d like (like yours: https://tamagui.dev/docs/guides/next-js)

Maybe your perception is backwards? Large parts of the ecosystem are consolidating on Tailwind, and it’s our job to provide sensible defaults according to that.

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People much higher than me at Vercel advocated for killing the entire category more than once.
being invested in something is not necessarily equal to having financially invested in it as an investor…