<story><title>Tailwind Isn&apos;t for Me</title><url>https://www.spicyweb.dev/why-tailwind-isnt-for-me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PUSH_AX</author><text>I love tailwind. I strongly feel that most modern CSS solutions are massively overthought. In engineering we have bigger problems to solve than a key&amp;#x2F;value list that makes a div blue.&lt;p&gt;Tailwind removes the thinking around CSS, naming, preprocessors etc etc, it just lets me write good CSS and focus on components and other engineering problems.&lt;p&gt;I seem to be one of the few people who can read CSS properties horizontally as well as vertically, so I&amp;#x27;m all good on most peoples major complaint.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dbbk</author><text>Why not Styled Components? I&amp;#x27;ve been using them for years now and I&amp;#x27;m extremely productive.&lt;p&gt;Tailwind on the other hand looks like a hellish nightmare, horizontal reading, proprietary syntax, no selector targeting of other components.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tailwind Isn&apos;t for Me</title><url>https://www.spicyweb.dev/why-tailwind-isnt-for-me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PUSH_AX</author><text>I love tailwind. I strongly feel that most modern CSS solutions are massively overthought. In engineering we have bigger problems to solve than a key&amp;#x2F;value list that makes a div blue.&lt;p&gt;Tailwind removes the thinking around CSS, naming, preprocessors etc etc, it just lets me write good CSS and focus on components and other engineering problems.&lt;p&gt;I seem to be one of the few people who can read CSS properties horizontally as well as vertically, so I&amp;#x27;m all good on most peoples major complaint.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ellinoora</author><text>My biggest issue with Tailwind is point #5 on the article: Tailwind encourages div&amp;#x2F;span-tag soup. Together with the class name soup my HTML becomes unreadable.</text></comment>