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I've often found that people that want to criticize Tailwind immediately dismiss anyone that likes it as lacking understanding of CSS. I've been writing CSS si
by cageface 4y ago
I've often found that people that want to criticize Tailwind immediately dismiss anyone that likes it as lacking understanding of CSS.
I've been writing CSS since 1997 and tried every fad technique that's come along. Tailwind is the first one that didn't make me dread dealing with CSS.
- satvikpendem 4y agoThat's all well and good until you have to maintain it at scale. I'd rather take regular CSS.
- cageface 4y agoI guess you missed the part where I said I have used it successfully on several large codebases?
- satvikpendem 4y agoSo have I. So now who's anecdotal evidence wins? It really is what it comes down to, isn't it?
- monkey_monkey 4y agoThis isn't about winning dude. Some people like Tailwind and find it incredibly helpful. Some people don't. Some people actively despise Tailwind. No one has to 'win'. All these opinions can coexist.
- satvikpendem 4y agoThat was the point of my rhetorical question. When comparing anecdotes, no one "wins" because both are unprovable.
- cageface 4y agoI'm not the one arguing that a particular technique doesn't scale or that its advocates don't know what they're doing. Of course you can build big things with semantic CSS. You also can with Tailwind.
- satvikpendem 4y agoI'm sure they can in Tailwind, but it hasn't been my experience, and that's what I meant by my rhetorical question, anecdotal evidence doesn't really matter.