Ugh. I remember how much Tailwind Labs has struggled for funding and it sucks to see Shopify get them. It also sucks to see they're discontinuing their paid products permanently, effective immediately -- they're not making them free, they're taking them away. You simply can't get them now. I understand why this had to happen but it is sad to see.

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weird-eye-issue 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Struggled for funding because their business model collapsed overnight and isn't coming back, this is probably a best case scenario.

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game_the0ry 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why does it suck that shopify got them? They seem to be a good steward of open source, especially with rails.

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LoganDark 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Usually when stuff like this happens, it means that Tailwind's developers are moving to work on Shopify instead, which means Tailwind CSS itself goes into maintenance mode. That's what usually happens when a dependency is picked up by a company with a huge, "more interesting" product -- the dependency starts to depend on the more interesting product for attention, and stops receiving attention on its own merits. It grows only to support the more interesting product.

Furthermore, I already have specific experience with Tailwind Labs neglecting their other libraries that aren't Tailwind CSS itself, probably because they were only meant to support their paid products (which now will no longer exist! so maybe those other libraries will just stop getting updates altogether). Headless UI was something I wanted to rely on heavily, but it's not built to be flexible enough and basic issues from 2021 or earlier haven't been resolved or seemingly even reviewed.

Now that they have Shopify, I'll be surprised if Tailwind CSS continues to receive any more attention than Headless UI did all those years ago. This acquisition puts Tailwind CSS in exactly that position.

(Edited to fix "Spotify" typos...)

	▲	hbn an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Tailwind is more relevant than ever in web development, it's practically the native language for UIs in the LLM world. I don't see why they'd put Tailwind into maintenance mode when they just purchased a pretty major building block in the modern web stack.
	▲	game_the0ry an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> which means Tailwind CSS itself goes into maintenance mode. You are making quite an assumption here. Bootstrap was a twitter os library that is still in development today.

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moralestapia 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For some definition of "struggling" that encompasses a situation where you get $3M/year for renaming CSS variables.