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I do a lot of UI work and have never understood the appeal of Tailwind. It’s like relearning a new language. Tailwind was released in 2017. Maybe the CSS landscape wasn’t as good back then? Modern CSS is pretty awesome.

I’ve enjoyed using Vanilla Extract https://vanilla-extract.style/. It’s like css-in-js with none of the downsides as everything gets compiled to css.

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Check out Panda CSS as well (https://panda-css.com/), I've been using both VE and this one, they're both great.

Most of Tailwind's class names follow a regular pattern and match very closely to the actual property names. It's much closer to learning legal shorthand than a new language.

So what's the savings against using the actual properties?

Classes vs style properties is the (dis)advantage.

I like tailwind so I prefer the class short-hands and composability.

Once I hit several styles on an element or obvious component styling (a la "primary-button") I just make a class with @apply.

There's a lot you can't do with inline styles, e.g., media queries.

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