@hbuchel You wouldn't believe the examples of code I've seen Tailwind people share with me, while arguing that Tailwind is "so much better" than vanilla CSS.
Someone asked about re-theming our library using Tailwind and of course my first thought is "why" and then also "why not just use CSS" but then it went to "ok but how would you pass the tailwind classes to nested elements within a component" and then I found this and realized people are out here re-inventing using the cascade with just plain old CSS but ~make it a utility class ~" I guess
It's still so wild to me that you can point out bad practices in javascript or whatever other language or point out a better way to write something and people go "yes of course, that makes sense now, I'll do it this way now" but for CSS those same people throw up their hands and go "I fear I need to reinvent CSS actually" instead of just learning the thing
@hbuchel My impression is that using CSS well requires specialized knowledge, which our industry is actively trying to squelch with the labor arbitrage of "Javascript everywhere" so everyone has the same skillset. Enough folks have drank the Kool Aid on this they have a critical mass and don't understand they're undercutting their own labor by devaluing others' experience.
@hbuchel Ah, I see you are not familiar with React.
(I joke, but there's plenty of ostensibly JavaScript-based libraries out there that reinvent some subset of the language in the name of making some use case "easier")
@cferdinandi yeeeaaah that's true. It's a weird place to be that they're so married to a library that they are basically like "lalala I can't hear you. Popular Twitter dude said this was ok so I know I'm right and you're wrong".
@cferdinandi As a rule of thumb it's my belief all people have a bias to:
Do whatever is easiest first.
To justify that choice as also being a good solution.
To reject changing (1) unless (2) becomes impossible.
It applies to all aspects of being a person. We're fundamentally "efficiency machines" but with a focus on "the moment". We bias to what's least effort unless we have strong counter motivation and spare spoons.
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