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by danielvaughn 58 days ago
I also spent years on the same problem. I was creating a programming language for designers, which was supposed to abstract away the complexity of CSS. Long story short, I gave up.
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Sorry to hear it. I didn't. And now our designers can tweak the code directly to adjust component styling. They can finally read and edit styles.
Actually, most importantly, AI can read and edit styles. CSS is hard enough on its own; adding overrides makes it so complex that it becomes unmanageable at scale.