Shopify acquires Tailwind

Does this mean tailwind plus is basically deprecated, and wont get any new stuff at all? That really sucks for anyone who bought the life time license.

what happens to people who paid for Tailwind Plus?

I guess they wanted to prevent losing their voting rights if Lütke‘s idea becomes reality

Phew was worried it was tailscale

Happy for Adam and his team.

tailwindcss is an anti-pattern that breaks fundamental rule of software engeneering - separation of concerns. just learn how to use CSS - it will benefit you in the long run. i suspect they will be "paywalling" more and more features in the future.

Expected move and good to hear. Gives Tailwind some extra maintenance years. But like with all these sugardaddy takeovers, the next expected move is “Tailwind is now independent again“.

I thought the narrative by Lütke et. al. was that the clankers could do everything by themselves!

Turns out that clankers generate beige static websites that use 100% CPU, so some assistance is needed.

We now have proof that the above is true, since Lütke adheres to the principle that any non-clanker usage has to be justified. Let us assume he justified the purchase.

This is awful.

R.I.P. Tailwind.

Edit: To clarify, I mean being assimilated by Shopify is awful. I understand that the Tailwind devs were neutered by AI skynet slop taking over before - that is also awful. That's actually two awful news we get here in one news entry.

Shopify's CEO (Tobias Lütke) is a Trump and Israel supporter. Also a close friend of DHH whose controversial right wing political ideas don't need any introduction to the HN audience. Make of that what you will.

Ugh. I remember how much Tailwind Labs has struggled for funding and it sucks to see Shopify get them. It also sucks to see they're discontinuing their paid products permanently, effective immediately -- they're not making them free, they're taking them away. You simply can't get them now. I understand why this had to happen but it is sad to see.

Another open source project being consumed by capitalist vultures. It's not enough to just fund them as charity is it?

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meh fuck shopify

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2347/

Oh, bejesus. Shopify awards the Stupefiers.

Why would anyone need any kind of framework for CSS?! It's the inherent human need to control something, to package water and sell it as magical water.

I've never understood the whole idea. Bootstrap: the hard-to-remember, horrible shitshow forced on frontend devs. And people thought there couldn't possibly be anything lower than that. Then Tailwind arrived. Apparently, frontend joes are so below average in brain capacity that they need their shiny thing covered in stickers saying "modern" and "state of the art", otherwise they feel dirty, like they haven't taken a shower in a week.

It's like building a framework to simplify the SQL dialect. In reality, there's zero need for it, because SQL is so simple and easy to understand that you'd have to be a moron to use some kind of framework for it. The same applies to CSS. Tailwind is an abomination, a horrible mess, just like all the other pointless CSS 'frameworks'.

These aren't frameworks. They're just some semi-psycho control freak's projection of control over something that doesn't need controlling.

Let's just say it out loud: Tailwind is being rewarded for turning tons of frontend joes into complete idiots by telling them the tale that their shiny thing is the new standard, when all it ever was was an experiment in the gullibility of inherently moronic people.