Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1

I invite (for fun and learning!) anyone here still thinking native CSS provides no efficient solution to the problems Tailwind may have solved 5 years ago to challenge me:

Bring up any said problem and I'll give you an efficient, robust, fast, simple and maintainable way to solve it in pure, native CSS (maybe even with further advantages!).

The time has come to embrace good ol' CSS again! Heheh.

> Bring up any said problem and I'll give you an efficient, robust, fast, simple and maintainable way to solve it in pure, native CSS (maybe even with further advantages!).

I'd like to not have to read or write CSS. Let's see you tackle that. ;-)

Well, Tailwind doesn't really solve that for you either - you pretty much have to know CSS to be able to use it effectively, in my experience. Technically, you may not really be writing CSS, but in practice, I think all the reasons you might have for not wanting to write CSS still apply to writing Tailwind.

Not quite, with Tailwind:

1. you need to know the specific effects of the individual directives but you don't need to deal with the cascading behaviour and other complexities.

2. you don't need to leave your local markup to make styling changes.

3. you don't need to synchronize selectors across multiple files (non-locality).

And because Tailwind involves a lot of repetition of the same CSS classes for the same markup, it naturally drives you towards defining reusable HTML components that encapsulate the markup and CSS classes.

There are a lot of subtle usability improvements like this that avoid CSS footguns and make dev UX better overall.