Thanks Tailwind devs! It’s a testament to the success of the concept and the quality and consistency of execution over a seriously long time, that Tailwind became how LLMs write code for the web.
Congrats on the release.
Tailwind CSS v4.0
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Re: Tailwind CSS v4.0
#12"Build times reduced", "no more @tailwind directives", "No more js configuration", "Designed for the modern web". To me, this screams "CSS now can do everything we used to do ourselves, but let's keep pretending that we are still needed somehow"
Really!? Is that really what you got out of it? I understand you're not a fan of Tailwind, so perhaps say what you dont like about Tailwind instead of creating a strawman and attacking it. Also, shame on you for poo-pooing on someone else's open source project and people find useful.
"What I don't like about Tailwind" has less to do with Tailwind itself and more about the violation of separation of content and presentation that they push so hard.
> poo-pooing on someone else's open source project
This is not some young kid doing free software out of kindness. This is a company making millions of dollars in revenue in a closed source product (tailwind UI), which is built on a foundation (tailwindCSS) that is becoming less and less needed.
Re: Tailwind CSS v4.0
#13I appreciate there are people who find Tailwind useful and are productive with it, but it has this clean yet generic look that I now see everywhere, because Tailwind is now everywhere.
Re: Tailwind CSS v4.0
#14Re: Tailwind CSS v4.0
#15I love tailwind, used in 3 projects in the past 4 years, it’s intuitive, well documented, simple. I don’t miss the days of emotion and styled components where I would have to think of a name for every styled div in the project, with tailwind a container is just a div and a few classes nothing else. Less bike shedding discussion, less brain cycles spent naming things, less time wasted in reviews.
Re: Tailwind CSS v4.0
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really!? Is that really what you got out of it? I understand you're not a fan of Tailwind, so perhaps say what you dont like about Tailwind instead of creating a strawman and attacking it. Also, shame on you for poo-pooing on someone else's open source project and people find useful.
"What I don't like about Tailwind" has less to do with Tailwind itself and more about the violation of separation of content and presentation that they push so hard. > poo-pooing on someone else's open source project This is not some young kid doing free software out of kindness. This is a company making millions of dollars in revenue in a closed source product (tailwind UI), which is built on a foundation (tailwindC…
Often content and presentation are part of the same package. In these cases, separating them makes maintenance of sites harder.
Re: Tailwind CSS v4.0
#17Heck yeah, cool to see Tailwind add support for transitions without Javascript.
As a burgeoning web developer, dealing with animation libraries seems like it's not worth the effort (or at least not for something as simple as a blog), so this is much appreciated.
Re: Tailwind CSS v4.0
#18I appreciate there are people who find Tailwind useful and are productive with it, but it has this clean yet generic look that I now see everywhere, because Tailwind is now everywhere.
I feel like that's a good thing, because Tailwind's options are well-thought and work well.
I like to think of it in the same way as Inter being the new Helvetica when it comes to choosing a font for a website: lots of people do it, and it looks great, so why not?
Re: Tailwind CSS v4.0
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not "hate". It's just that I don't see the value that it brings today .
Whether you enjoy utility classes isn't really related at all to what css supports.
Maybe you are making my point?
If tailwind was "just utility classes", fine. But what business would it be there if they just published a bunch of CSS files with their styles?
With modern CSS, what problem are they really solving now?
Re: Tailwind CSS v4.0
#20Looking forward to integrating this into my elixir projects!