I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I know what you're saying. My distaste for Tailwind, however, isn't an "initial" reaction, and it's not specific to Tailwind. I've been aware of variations on these ideas for years, and think they're a very bad direction for development to go.
I'm drawing the comparison between utility classes in general and the idea of CSS-in-JS, because I think that it's a similar fad, and that - barring some kind of AI revolution - it's going to cause a lot more problems as time goes by.
Maybe a better example would be comparing either to the use of tables for layout. You can see pros and cons for that, too - but people aren't making the case for switching to tables in 2020.
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I know what you're saying. My distaste for Tailwind, however, isn't an "initial" reaction, and it's not specific to Tailwind. I've been aware of variations on these ideas for years, and think they're a very bad direction for development to go.
I'm drawing the comparison between utility classes in general and the idea of CSS-in-JS, because I think that it's a similar fad, and that - barring some kind of AI revolution - it's going to cause a lot more problems as time goes by.
Maybe a better example would be comparing either to the use of tables for layout. You can see pros and cons for that, too - but people aren't making the case for switching to tables in 2020.