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Comment by The5thElephant

Figma will never be good at dev handoff because it isn't built on HTML/CSS rendering, so its code output is awful. No plugin or interpretation layer can fix this.

CSS is the language of design, yet for some reason every design tool completely ignores it.

Every top feature request on the Figma Forums is for HTML/CSS type features. We need a design tool built from the ground up on HTML/CSS rendering that has a Figma-like interface. Framer and Plasmic are sort of like this except made the mistake of wrapping everything in React code with tons of unnecessary abstractions that make the HTML/CSS output really messy.

I like the attitude relate.app (now Rainbow) has, but I don't see Figma being the final design tool, particularly when working with developers.

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