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philippbosch | 6 years ago

Yes, but that's just because I think for simplicity they created one large CSS file that is used for all their components and example pages. That's not very realistic. You're not supposed to do it like this for your own project. Instead if you use Tailwind CSS and PurgeCSS I'm pretty sure you would end up with ~10 or 15 kB of CSS gzipped, maybe less.

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csande17|6 years ago

> You're not supposed to do it like this for your own project.

If even the creator of Tailwind doesn't use Tailwind properly, does anyone?

dpacmittal|6 years ago

They are using it properly. It's just that they're using a single css file across all the examples and component pages.

chrshawkes|6 years ago

I'm tired of excuses for inferior tooling. If you truly know CSS, Tailwind is a waste of time.

generalk|6 years ago

I've been reading awful takes like this since I started writing software.

"PHP is an awful language, superior developers write in Perl."

"Rails is bloated and slow, making it unfit for any real work."

"True developers don't rely on frameworks, writing all your own code is the only way to be performant."

If you wanna handicap yourself, be my guest.

I've written three or so projects in TailwindCSS, and it lets me create responsive designs quickly. It gives me a very sane set of defaults to build off of. And most importantly, it helps me get a product to production faster than writing raw CSS.

mattferderer|6 years ago

Quite the opposite. It's a nice set of CSS variables. It still relies on much more CSS knowledge than a framework like Bootstrap.

CSS frameworks are great because there is a flavor that should fit just about anyone.

larrywright|6 years ago

If you truly know assembler, C/Python/Ruby/Go is a waste of time.

See how dumb that sounds?

devonkim|6 years ago

This kind of attitude, while totally relatable IMO as we grow frustrated with massive piles of crapware, is also how we wind up with NIH problems as organizations scale beyond just a few people. There is a very consistent theme by their creators across companies large and small - brilliant, productive, controlling, and eventually fired.

sergiotapia|6 years ago

I'm kind of with you on this. We're rebuilding a large internal admin tool with all in house css and components, it's tiny and fast. We didnt want to bring in bootstrap or some other huge framework. Those were fine when I was a jr developer - not anymore