Well I guess that's good?
Shopify acquires Tailwind
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Re: Shopify acquires Tailwind
#22I hope Tailwind gets its own space to expand. Shopify has done some great things for Ruby/Rails ecosystem. Hope that spirit continues
Re: Shopify acquires Tailwind
#23Re: Shopify acquires Tailwind
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think maybe they should have kept building Tailwinds CSS, release new versions, then charge a subscription to teams for their agents to access latest changes in their documents. In other words, the documents for the latest versions are hidden behind a pay wall.
That's one way to ensure Tailwind v4 remains forever the only version anyone uses. Agents already are not very responsive to framework changes.
That's ok. Teams who pay can use the new versions.
Re: Shopify acquires Tailwind
#25I instruct my agents to build UI exclusively with bootstrap 5, jQuery, and HTMX.
Every app is fast, responsive, progressive, small, and most importantly: it fits in my brain and I can maintain it. No build step or really any tooling at all.
Re: Shopify acquires Tailwind
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's one way to ensure Tailwind v4 remains forever the only version anyone uses. Agents already are not very responsive to framework changes.
That's ok. Teams who pay can use the new versions.
And the AIs they use would have no inherent training on those new versions.
Re: Shopify acquires Tailwind
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's one way to ensure Tailwind v4 remains forever the only version anyone uses. Agents already are not very responsive to framework changes.
That's ok. Teams who pay can use the new versions.
While everyone else migrates to something else because v4 eventually becomes legacy and the only way to get modern features is to use something open and available. Charging for access to new versions only gives you short-term runway at the expense of giving your entire user base a very good reason to leave.
Re: Shopify acquires Tailwind
#28I instruct my agents to build UI exclusively with bootstrap 5, jQuery, and HTMX. Every app is fast, responsive, progressive, small, and most importantly: it fits in my brain and I can maintain it. No build step or really any tooling at all.
Also a solid combination for LLM assisted apps. Claude Code will just get it. It's good with Tailwind also though.
Re: Shopify acquires Tailwind
#29I instruct my agents to build UI exclusively with bootstrap 5, jQuery, and HTMX. Every app is fast, responsive, progressive, small, and most importantly: it fits in my brain and I can maintain it. No build step or really any tooling at all.
Even better than that - just use bootstrap 3
Re: Shopify acquires Tailwind
#30Business model always struck me as a little odd when Tailwind, by it's very nature, makes it trivial to copy existing implementations