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I've been using CSS since 1997. CSS was basically a shit show for its first 20 years thanks to all the slightly differing browser implementations. I will tell you, that is what stuck with me.

Tailwind is a massive improvement in terms of maintainability across teams and tooling. Thanks to Tailwind my team hasn't had to think about CSS resets and browser shims for over 5 years now, and any bugs where an application looks different in a particular browser can be forwarded to a team who will fix it, instead of us having to maintain an ever-growing pile of special rules and feature detection code.

There is, of course, no silver bullet, but for a team building applications from components with React or Vue, Tailwind is a maintainability dream compared to stylesheets, and easier to train new devs on too.

parent ghc 3 years ago

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