I could dig and fill in holes in my backyard for 8 years but that doesn't mean I created value or justified the time spent. The library has been good enough for widespread adoption since like 2020 at the latest - did it really need a team of 9 people working on it the last six years? What is there to show for that?

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bodge5000 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sure, but if you stop digging and filling in those holes nobody is gonna care. People clearly do care if Tailwind stops development, thats where this whole thing stemmed from; someone opened a PR and it wasn't getting merged in

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FooBarWidget 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If there is no value in newer Tailwind versions, then why would anybody upgrade past 1.0? Clearly there is value that you don't recognize.

I mean, I'm not a Tailwind user so I don't either. But it's incredibly easy to take open source value for granted. That's why so many maintainers burn out.

	▲	robertjpayne 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		V2 to V3 was really good value, but V3 to V4 was mostly performance with a migration nightmare with little new features. I don't know what a Tailwind V5 could add that is "breaking" and be worth the migration headache again.