Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team

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• snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What a shit show of a thread lol.

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• UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sounds like Tailwind is facing some headwinds.

  I’ll see myself out.

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• cornshark@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s Tailwind?

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  • W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A CSS framework that moves writing CSS into the html to make it stupidly long with annoyingly confusing class names.

    I might be biased though. I hate it.

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    • skribe@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I agree. I looked at tailwind and couldn’t believe it was so popular. It defeats the entire purpose of CSS, and returns web dev back to the early 90s. Just stupid.

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    • termaxima@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tailwind is what you get when you ask “What if we UNinvented CSS 🤔”

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  • Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s effectively an alternative to plain CSS. Works well with component-based systems like React and Svelte.

    I used it for a few years and thought it was pretty good. I still use it on some of my projects.

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  • StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If I recall correctly, it is a CSS framework.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  300 bucks for one “license”? I’m starting to understand the “get fucked” comment guy.

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  • YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s for lifetime. Or you could pay five bucks a month for it. It’s been quite impressive, as a person who just uses the service. Tried it on the free tier liked it enough to start ponying up.

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    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lifetime of the product, not the user. It’s a scam.

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  • Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not particularly bad value for what they’re offering, which seems to be a component library and set of templates.

    For a comparison, the company I work for are paying over a £1000 / year for MUI-X, which is a set of paid React components. It’s cheaper and more efficient than paying someone at our company to maintain our own component library.

    Even a single engineer spending 10% of their time (as I used to) maintaining this stuff would cost the company over £5000 / year in manpower.

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• wltr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That sounds too loud, what’s the actual meaning behind what they’re saying? To me, that looks like maybe they hired too many people assuming their business would only grow. That’s the delusion some Silicon Valley folks have, with the sort of VC culture. Perhaps they shouldn’t grow in employees (why are there employees in the first place?) and try to be sustainable instead. The whole project looks so flashy, but does it even need to grow?

  On a personal note, I’m not a fan. I used it in a couple of projects, and wasn’t sold on the idea of never ever learning CSS and make your classes not semantic at all. However, I think there might be cases where this approach makes sense. I just haven’t found it so far.

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  • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It makes if you use any sort of front-end library like React, Vue, Svelte, etc. The components are your semantic boundaries and the tailwind classes don’t need to be descriptive beyond what they actually do.

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    • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d love to learn more, never really worked with them. Is Tailwind much of improvement with these frameworks?

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• dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  thank goodness tailwind is pretty useless with new css tech. I’ll keep on stickin with css :)

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  • FlaxPicker@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    what new css tech are you referring to?

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    • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      css layers mostly now, and then variables, and calc. Soon we’re getting custom functions too!

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They say because of AI people stopped visiting their page and now they can’t sell them other services. I’ve been using tailwind for some time and I have no idea what other services they offer besides some component library. There are so many free alternatives that I never even considered checking it out. I think their business model is that that great to begin with and AI doesn’t have much to do with it.

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• termaxima@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tailwind : I can’t believe it’s not CSS ! Now with hallucinations !

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• fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks like I’m sticking with bootstrap then

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• vane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  google ai studio is now sponsoring them so the slop can continue
  xcancel.com/OfficialLoganK/…/2009339263251566902

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