[mootothemax]

Tailwind is magical to me for one reason alone:

I can now design.

As someone who spent 20+ years as a jack-of-all-trades / full-stack developer, specialising in back-end and database skills, this has largely been... confusing.

Before, I couldn't even make plain text work. Totally hopeless, I didn't have the eye for things.

Now though, now I help my kids lay out their homework to be more visually pleasing. It's bizarre.

(caveats: while I can put together a visually pleasing and consistent websites, I'm not saying that design is easy, nor that designers don't have talents way above my own. I view this more like an enthusiastic amateur at the piano rather than having become a concert pianist.)

I know of one other dev who's experienced the same. I'm keen to learn if there are more of us out there.

[kccqzy]

A decade ago Bootstrap helped a generation of programmers who don't know how to design make pleasantly looking websites. I fail to see how Tailwind is better suited to that task than Bootstrap.

[9dev]

With bootstrap, there was a fixed set of components to pick from. For a lot of things, there were no suitable components, so people used those that they had for everything else, kind of like designing furniture in Minecraft with blocks. This makes bootstrap interfaces bland and overly similar, in a way that Tailwind doesn’t: its design system is fundamentally based around design tokens arranged in sensible steps, not full components. That allows for a lot more flexibility and stylistic control.

[dontlikeyoueith]

Because it's newer and trendy and that's important for programmers learning their first tool that solves an old problem.

Whether it should be important is another question, but it's a simple fact that it is.

[mootothemax]

yeah that's not what I'm saying