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Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
esther@strangeobject.space ("Esther is walking") wrote:
Right from the start, Tailwind felt like the product of a culture that devalued the (often feminine gender-coded) work of “not really engineering” that is writing CSS, despite it being a complex field that involves difficult problems. A culture where people tried hard to make everything into JavaScript (“real programming” done by “real engineers”) and threw out a lot of the benefits of a system they viewed as “old” (which to them is equivalent to “bad”) but didn’t bother to understand.
But when the overall vibe shifted to “maybe not everything needs to be several megabytes of JS and a build-pipeline that takes 15 minutes?”, instead of learning the CSS skills of the people they looked down upon, they started reinventing the wheel, but poorly, as it usually happens when people disregard significant prior work.
It’s a microcosm of tech people (mostly cis men) thinking they’re the ones to “disrupt” something but only end up making things a lot worse.