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Discussion on: TailwindCSS: Adds complexity, does nothing.

 
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Ben Sinclair

You can do that in things like Sass, too. It's not a benefit of Tailwind.

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Reinier Kaper

But that's the point. It's not a good example of how using regular CSS (or pre processed CSS) is "better" in this case, it's not.

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Ben Sinclair

I'm not sure I follow. I'm saying that having the same feature as an existing build process doesn't make the new one better, it makes it the same. I'm saying that the claim is that BMW make better cars than Ford because BMWs have four wheels.

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Reinier Kaper

It's not a valuable claim in the original article.

He doesn't like/use Tailwind as he doesn't see the benefit over using what he already does.

That's fine and totally reasonable, but it's not an argument against Tailwind. His whole article is about how Tailwind is useless.

Maybe to him it is, fine, no one argues that. But that doesn't make Tailwind useless in general.

His examples are supposed to show how bad Tailwind is. It isn't. It just doesn't fit him or his way of writing CSS.

Cool, absolutely nothing wrong with that, but again that didn't make Tailwind useless or bad in any way.