[danpad]

Your first paragraph highlights the issue perfectly. You mentioned Bulma—how many developers have even heard of it, let alone use it regularly? It’s even worse when one app uses Bulma because someone wanted to try it out, another uses Tailwind because it came along a year later, and then there’s a 10-year-old PHP project still stuck on Bootstrap 3.

With something like MUI, everything is where I expect it to be. That consistency lets me focus on learning the business logic, addressing critical bugs, and thus making meaningful contributions.

[yawaramin]

Sure, you use MUI, someone else uses Ant Design, yet another person uses Tailwind UI, where does it end?! Sheer insanity. So of course, this is a problem only when it happens in the server-driven approach, but not in the client-driven approach :shrug:

[danpad]

Weeeeell debating whether to use one of those 3 UI component libraries you mentioned is IMO pointless, you are gonna be fine with any of them. I was thinking more along the lines of Django vs Rails vs ASP.NET and someone suddenly coming in and yelling "LET'S DO CLOJURE".

[yawaramin]

In that case someone is gonna come in and yell 'LET'S DO ELM WITH ELM-UI'? No?

[danpad]

True :D