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by p4bl0 327 days ago
I never liked Tailwind. The point of CSS was to separate content and presentation. Tailwind not only goes backward on that but does it a lot worse than HTML did before, because the presentation not only is mixed with HTML but is also just a long random string rather than structured into HTML attributes. It's just like CSS using only style="" attributes, only with a different, almost proprietary syntax that you have to learn on addition to actual web standards.
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Oh why can't this idea go away. That might or might not have been the idea, but it does not scale beyond a text document. It so does not.

If it did, we wouldn't have 15 years of Sass and Less and Stylus and CSS Modules and Styled Components and BEM and SMACSS and Tailwind. I have been through it all and Tailwind is the easy winner both for productivity and maintenance over 5 years.

I sort my cutlery by knife/fork/spoon, not handles and implements.