Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
by koakuma-chan on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:44PM
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> I regularly see classes that don't have an meaningful outcome.
You mean custom classes?
Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
by spoiler on Friday January 09, 2026 @05:43AM
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I mean stuff like adding `display: block` on the parent and `flex: 1` on a child element. Clearly a copy-pasting leftover because someone or whatnot, but then you're debugging a layout issue and you're wondering "but why is this here"
For what its worth, I had the same experience with Tailwind. I regularly see classes that don't have an meaningful outcome.
I don't think the problem is Tailwind or CSS (well, I guess Tailwind is CSS with extra steps but you get the idea) syntax (or any of the CSS preprocessors), but the fact that styling in browsers has accumulated a lot of cruft, and people who haven't "grown up" with it over the years don't fully understand it (I am more competent than most with it and there's still times I screw up).
One thing that's kinda nice about Tailwind is that it made copy-pasting components easier. So people can get something decent without fully understanding what's happening