Tailwind is a high level language on top of CSS. It groups expected behaviors into groups that are applied through classes or directives. So in that sense it is

Tailwind is a high level language on top of CSS. It groups expected behaviors into groups that are applied through classes or directives. So in that sense it is an abstraction. However, it is as leaky an abstraction as preprocessor elements, native code elements in other high level languages. If you want to do advanced stuff, you can either fall back to "native code" in CSS or use some "meta-programming" through classes. I've been using Tailwind for all my recent projects and it is an absolute gift. Yes, it doesn't take away the need to learn CSS, but it takes away a lot of the tedium in producing behaviors that are expected in modern websites. I used the lovely clay[1] library a lot to handcraft CSS before I started using Tailwind and I don't think I want to go back. [1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/clay https://hackage.haskell.org/package/clay