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If you know CSS why are you using Tailwind which is esoteric CSS but worse? Just use CSS.

ethanbond 3y ago
Because it’s way, way faster to build with; yields more easily composable, less brittle components; and has a very solid (and rather unopinionated) design system baked in.
jongjong 3y ago
So glad to read comments like this. I cannot believe my eyes that most devs these days just don't get it and litter their projects with layer upon layer upon layer of unnecessary complexity. I thought a person had to be rational to become a developer but oh my, how wrong I was.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
  Everyone is a developer. This is the paradox of popularity. The theory goes that if you have a large pool of X to select from, then you can select the best of the best, and the quality of your selection will be amazing. But it's exactly the opposite. Small groups are self-selecting for quality and big groups are self-selecting for quantity. O_O English, the universal international language. The one we're speaking here, right now. The worst translators in the world are English translators. Everyone feels qualified to speak it and translate it. Finding a good English translator is like looking for a needle in a haystack. The more "easy languages" and "frameworks" we have, the more "programmers" we also have, and 99.999% of them have the faintest clue what they're doing, but they just keep hitting their keyboard with a hammer, and it compiles and produces interesting results, so they keep doing it. This is also why social networks have an amazing set of interactions when they're new, and in an old social network you have hundreds of millions of users, but no one writes anything interesting, anyone barely reads, and it's full of scams, bots, clickbait and garbage. There's safety in numbers, the saying goes. Not at all. If something is universally popular, and you choose to enter it, get ready for a shitstorm. P.S.: Tailwind is garbage.
JoeyJoJoJr 3y ago
Are there any resources like tailwindui or shadcn ui that are built on plain CSS, that are actually consistent and high quality?

Because it’s way, way faster to build with; yields more easily composable, less brittle components; and has a very solid (and rather unopinionated) design system baked in.

jongjong 3y ago

So glad to read comments like this. I cannot believe my eyes that most devs these days just don't get it and litter their projects with layer upon layer upon layer of unnecessary complexity. I thought a person had to be rational to become a developer but oh my, how wrong I was.

3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
Everyone is a developer. This is the paradox of popularity. The theory goes that if you have a large pool of X to select from, then you can select the best of the best, and the quality of your selection will be amazing. But it's exactly the opposite. Small groups are self-selecting for quality and big groups are self-selecting for quantity. O_O English, the universal international language. The one we're speaking here, right now. The worst translators in the world are English translators. Everyone feels qualified to speak it and translate it. Finding a good English translator is like looking for a needle in a haystack. The more "easy languages" and "frameworks" we have, the more "programmers" we also have, and 99.999% of them have the faintest clue what they're doing, but they just keep hitting their keyboard with a hammer, and it compiles and produces interesting results, so they keep doing it. This is also why social networks have an amazing set of interactions when they're new, and in an old social network you have hundreds of millions of users, but no one writes anything interesting, anyone barely reads, and it's full of scams, bots, clickbait and garbage. There's safety in numbers, the saying goes. Not at all. If something is universally popular, and you choose to enter it, get ready for a shitstorm. P.S.: Tailwind is garbage.

JoeyJoJoJr 3y ago

Are there any resources like tailwindui or shadcn ui that are built on plain CSS, that are actually consistent and high quality?