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snoooooooooooreyesterday at 1:10 AM1 replyview on HN

Is anyone working on actual css problems instead of this sugar syntax?

Hypermedia suffers because these marketing companies waste time on making sure they can build Pinterest in 10 LoC instead of fixing actual long running hypermedia domains.


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pclyesterday at 1:22 AM

Moving this sort of stuff out of JavaScript and arcane hacks allows the browser rendering engines to optimize these common patterns. This is sorta the opposite of syntactic sugar. The syntactic sugar is the libraries that implemented these patterns without rendering support.

Shall we call it syntactic umami perhaps? Or syntactic lipids?