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Exactly! Tachyons was awesome and ahead of its time but its core design system wasn't as well made as Tailwind's is. Also, to be fair, Tailwind's marketing gam

by mxstbr 6y ago

Exactly! Tachyons was awesome and ahead of its time but its core design system wasn't as well made as Tailwind's is. Also, to be fair, Tailwind's marketing game is out of this world as well. They are literally some of the best developer marketers on this planet!

busterarm 6y ago
Tailwind is also like half a megabyte minified and zipped vs Tachyons 20kb.
- config_yml 6y ago
  But who uses all those tokens from the full tailwind build? Maybe if you use the CDN build? That's why purgecss is builtin. It's dead simple to setup and you'll have only the used classes in your CSS output.
  - busterarm 6y ago
    I agree, I've just seen this kind of thing before and have low expectations of what people will do with it. Basically I'm expecting people to be lazy and use the full thing. Especially the CDN build.
subpixel 6y ago
You can create (or recreate) Tachyons using Tailwind, and take advantage of all the bells and whistles that the later offers that the former does not.
uxcolumbo 6y ago
Can you give some examples of what they did marketing wise that helped it being adopted more widely than Tachyons?
- cambalache 6y ago
  They wrote a book that is pretty popular. Thanks to their connections with the Laravel leadership they got Tailwind as a somehow default for the front-end in Laravel. I dont know if it is organic or not, but there are dozens of articles about Tailwind coming up daily in sites like Medium and Dev.to.
- rendall 6y ago
  Have you seen the trailer for Tailwind 2? https://youtu.be/3u_vIdnJYLc https://youtu.be/3u_vIdnJYLc
- ediatedia 6y ago
  Adam Wathan actually wrote about it: https://adamwathan.me/tailwindcss-from-side-project-byproduct-to-multi-mullion-dollar-business/ https://adamwathan.me/tailwindcss-from-side-project-byproduc... I think one of the most powerful things was making a course then giving it away - really goes far to boost your prominence as a developer and building those lists.

by mxstbr 6y ago

busterarm 6y ago

Tailwind is also like half a megabyte minified and zipped vs Tachyons 20kb.

config_yml 6y ago
But who uses all those tokens from the full tailwind build? Maybe if you use the CDN build? That's why purgecss is builtin. It's dead simple to setup and you'll have only the used classes in your CSS output.
- busterarm 6y ago
  I agree, I've just seen this kind of thing before and have low expectations of what people will do with it. Basically I'm expecting people to be lazy and use the full thing. Especially the CDN build.

subpixel 6y ago

You can create (or recreate) Tachyons using Tailwind, and take advantage of all the bells and whistles that the later offers that the former does not.

uxcolumbo 6y ago

Can you give some examples of what they did marketing wise that helped it being adopted more widely than Tachyons?

cambalache 6y ago
They wrote a book that is pretty popular. Thanks to their connections with the Laravel leadership they got Tailwind as a somehow default for the front-end in Laravel. I dont know if it is organic or not, but there are dozens of articles about Tailwind coming up daily in sites like Medium and Dev.to.
rendall 6y ago
Have you seen the trailer for Tailwind 2? https://youtu.be/3u_vIdnJYLc https://youtu.be/3u_vIdnJYLc
ediatedia 6y ago
Adam Wathan actually wrote about it: https://adamwathan.me/tailwindcss-from-side-project-byproduct-to-multi-mullion-dollar-business/ https://adamwathan.me/tailwindcss-from-side-project-byproduc... I think one of the most powerful things was making a course then giving it away - really goes far to boost your prominence as a developer and building those lists.