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Exactly! Tachyons was awesome and ahead of its time but its core design system wasn't as well made as Tailwind's is.

Also, to be fair, Tailwind's marketing game is out of this world as well. They are literally some of the best developer marketers on this planet!

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You can create (or recreate) Tachyons using Tailwind, and take advantage of all the bells and whistles that the later offers that the former does not.

Can you give some examples of what they did marketing wise that helped it being adopted more widely than Tachyons?

Adam Wathan actually wrote about it:

https://adamwathan.me/tailwindcss-from-side-project-byproduc...

I think one of the most powerful things was making a course then giving it away - really goes far to boost your prominence as a developer and building those lists.

They wrote a book that is pretty popular. Thanks to their connections with the Laravel leadership they got Tailwind as a somehow default for the front-end in Laravel. I dont know if it is organic or not, but there are dozens of articles about Tailwind coming up daily in sites like Medium and Dev.to.

Have you seen the trailer for Tailwind 2?

https://youtu.be/3u_vIdnJYLc

Tailwind is also like half a megabyte minified and zipped vs Tachyons 20kb.

But who uses all those tokens from the full tailwind build? Maybe if you use the CDN build?

That's why purgecss is builtin. It's dead simple to setup and you'll have only the used classes in your CSS output.

I agree, I've just seen this kind of thing before and have low expectations of what people will do with it.

Basically I'm expecting people to be lazy and use the full thing. Especially the CDN build.

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