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spankaleelast Thursday at 10:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

CSS simply doesn't need a framework - there's no "from scratch". For humans or LLM authors.

Tailwind is a lot of overhead conceptually and tooling wise to just not have to write classnames, and it's actually anti-modular.


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AltruisticGapHNlast Friday at 2:14 PM

That's not the full picture.

If you're a senior CSS developer you will invariably reach a point of using "object oriented CSS" which is where you combine classes to an effect.

At that point you're not far off Tailwind. TW just took it all the way.

vehemenzlast Thursday at 10:30 PM

Can you explain? Tailwind massively reduces overhead for abstraction, classing, documentation, and maintenance.

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