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> Tailwind's just a shorthand style for writing [a particular snapshotted older version of] CSS based on the theory that saving on keystrokes is worth more than
by bastawhiz 4y ago
> Tailwind's just a shorthand style for writing [a particular snapshotted older version of] CSS based on the theory that saving on keystrokes is worth more than understandable naming.
Tailwind takes the "cascading" and "sheets" out of CSS. Instead of describing what types of things look like, it forces you to describe how each individual instance of everything looks. Which is a valid thing to do, but it's absolutely not a parallel track to the purpose and paradigm of vanilla CSS.
- dogcomplex 4y agoYeah but you can do that with CSS, you'd just never want to as it's too verbose and a pain to change en-masse compared to abstracted classes. Those concerns don't go away with Tailwind - they're just less trouble to type.