Comment by techblueberry
1 day ago
This feels like the OpenSSL problem where we do probably need some kind of industry organization to maintain these things. There’s a chicken and the egg problem that these AI companies need someone to keep maintaining tailwind if they want it to keep working in their prompts.
Maybe that limits the ability for the head of tailwind to run their own business and make more income, but something gotta give.
> we do probably need some kind of industry organization to maintain these things.
In the case of CSS, we already have that:
https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Overview.en.html
Are you saying the www consortium should be paying to keep Tailwind development and maintenance going? The css standard is not the same as a usable library of components.
Tailwind is open source. Anyone can contribute to it, including an LLM.
If the founder of Tailwind quits on it, others who deem Tailwind valuable enough will continue to maintain it.
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The problem here is that the w3c sucks a fat one, and they've failed to build software specs that don't require an ecosystem thousands of libraries to make using CSS, etc. simple or efficient.