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> I have been in the industry for a while > Out of curiosity how long have you been doing frontend development? I've been writing CSS since IE 6 and I can tel
by atif089 2mo ago
> I have been in the industry for a while
> Out of curiosity how long have you been doing frontend development?
I've been writing CSS since IE 6 and I can tell you not a lot of us oldies like tailwind. I've only seen a strong inclination towards Tailwind from the newer generation frontends (2015 and beyond)
Us oldies actually prefer BEM over anything else.
My talking point is based off internal comms from a large'ish company (200+ FE devs) so YMMV
- greggh 2mo agoMany of us oldies who started working on the web years before IE 6 actually like Tailwind. We all have our preferences. But I know multiple 50+ year olds who have been doing this work since CSS was barely a proposal who now use Tailwind.
- atif089 2mo ago[dead]
- FireBeyond 2mo agoHah, yeah, there's always anecdotes. I stopped doing frontend a decade or more ago (and even then it had been a smaller and smaller part of my day). But I see the appeal of it. I started front end when we had to buy testing desktops that were beefier so they could run multiple VMware VMs, one with IE3, 4, 5, 5.5. I remember the delight that our designers had when Javascript came out and my buddy showed that you could do some magic on images and form elements and have an actual checkbox with a check in it, not just a filled or empty box or circle. Or of the dev who thought he'd impress a girl on IRC by updating a prominent site's homepage to have a "Hi Sara" underneath the banner because he could just ftp to prod from his desktop.