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by d4tocchini 4380 days ago
GSS was built not for standards, but for our flagship product, that's our priority right now. Our approach to organically influence standards is to make the APIs work in real world products, and if enough momentum builds to begin the necessary working drafts.

I'd like to see more polyfills of potential standards. Waiting years on end for things like CSS Vars or the Grid Layout Module is getting real old.

Instead of hating on JavaScript, the only turing complete tool we have in the browsers, we should be pushing for extensibility standards. API hooks into the internals of CSS selector resolution, layout calculations, etc so devs can add new features in a performant & predictable manner that may never trickle down from the ivory tower of standards.