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Re:Orbit – open-source design system by traceroute66 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @11:32AM (#27834234)
The problem I have with all these self-promotion frameworks (i.e. CSS frameworks open sourced by commercial entities) is that they are inherently at the mercy of said companies.

Take Zurb Foundation for example, as far as I can tell its basically become abandonware. Foundation 7 has been promised forever and yet we're still stuck with Foundation 6 which has all sorts of bugs and gotcha's that will catch people out because the framework is out-of-date in comparison with the technology that people are using to access websites.

The only exception to this is Twitter Bootstrap which has been consistently kept up to date. Whilst I don't agree with some of the design decisions in the latest Bootstrap 4, it remains a solid, well maintained framework.

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Re:Orbit – open-source design system by vosper on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:26PM (#27835673)
I think Material UI is going pretty strong, too? They've just released a beta of version 5.

I think overall the comes-from-corporate-entity frameworks are probably still a better bet than the one-persons-pet-project ones - there are loads of those, too.

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Re:Orbit – open-source design system by chucky on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @04:36PM (#27838113)
Material UI isn't coming from a corporation in the same way as the others though. Material UI is an open source implementation of Google's Material Design system, but it's not in use by Google AFAIK.
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