[airstrike]

I appreciate the thoughtful replies. I struggle to understand why CSS is such a big deal if you're not building for the web. I can make my app as pretty as I'd like using styling that isn't CSS. OK, maybe I miss glow effects, some nicer gradients and 3D transforms, but those are far from showstoppers and still worth giving up for everything else I gain with iced

[chironjit]

I don't have an eye for styling. That said, I have hundreds of hours of experience using CSS and frameworks such as tailwindCSS.

Of course, if I am being honest, the real reason is that there is so much CSS code out there, I can really find anything I need. And so can the LLMs.

[airstrike]

Thanks. I've been meaning to make a shadcn-like library for iced. Would that help?

[chironjit]

You bet! Shadcn is defacto component framework for a reason - it removes a lot of the mental load of design when you're an individual/small team building apps