Leimi
Joined 14 years ago
Joined 14 years ago
I see the value in helping me (the dev) quickly setting up landing pages and including them in my existing website that I host where I want.
- sure, but since the tailwind page does more things, it's logical it has more code. Your base for comparison is production used code, sold to people. So of course it's polished, it must handle browser bugs and other things you might not expect in a quickly implemented alternative for a tech article. So I'm not surprised the code is bigger. That doesn't say at all that tailwind == more HTML tags :)
- The whole "amount of CSS" part is unfair when the Semantic CSS implementation isn't responsive at all, so of course it will be lighter, it does less.
- The part about the big number of HTML elements is a bit frustrating too; tailwind doesn't require you to use more HTML tags at all. It's totally possible to redo the Semantic CSS example with tailwind by not adding any HTML tags.
Besides that, it's still interesting to try and compare what is the best between big HTML (atomic, tailwind) vs big CSS (semantic).
Tailwind is not perfect, and sure, sometimes, you can get more performant code by writing it the semantic way. Sometimes.
But tailwind sure is a great way to easily write maintainable CSS in a team with different skill sets, producing really performant code by default, on large web apps.
Like, what tools do the authors have. Are the content authors super tech savvy or not. How much specific code must be created for each article. How long does everything take compared to a normal, mostly-text page. How many people work on one article. etc. Must be pretty interesting.
And I have a few use cases where 32 Gb is limiting. So I don't want to buy a brand new machine stuck at something that is, sometimes, already not ideal. And well, the usual next step is 64 Gb.
I have the gen 2 which is the most annoying thinkpad I ever had, but well, it's still really great compared to other brands.
The real frustrating thing as for now in the real world is, there is an extremely low number of laptops with soldered ram that offers 64 GB. And the few that do, charge an absurd amount of money for it.
With socketed ram, I can:
- buy the cheapest built-in config of a laptop
- then buy the RAM I currently need on my own, often saving a few hundreds bucks just doing that
- then, in a few years, buy some new RAM again, when I need it, if I need it, instead of having to buy a whole new laptop.
That's how I went with thinkpads during 15 years. Now I have to pay 500$ more to be a bit future proof. If the manufacturer offers it. Double that if you want a mac.
So, still today, I'm 100% taking socketed ram instead of soldered one.
I agree about the rest, a few things are not quite there yet, or maybe will never be. But on lots of things it is really refreshing.
Only thing that I'm afraid of is the build quality of the chassis that doesn't really seem on par with premium thinkpads and other business laptops.
Overall it's a pretty similar experience. Most difficult part is the habit changing of getting used to a different UI.