@db Just scrolling through it and I'm already facepalming.
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@db Just scrolling through it and I'm already facepalming.
This may be a weird detail to fall on, but I noticed they use logical property `marginBlock`, but also old-school `width` and `height` in one of their examples.
If you're gonna be shitty, at least be consistent about it, geez.
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@db Which, in hindsight, is what I should have done as well.
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@db I like how they have a heading that says:
> Ideal use cases
And then text which says:
> StyleX works well in a wide variety of projects. However, it was designed to meet the challenges of particular use cases.
…and then don’t mention any use cases
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@db I mean “Reusable components” is not so much a ‘use case’ as the entire conception of CSS
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@db I like how they have a heading that says:
> Ideal use cases
And then text which says:
> StyleX works well in a wide variety of projects. However, it was designed to meet the challenges of particular use cases.
…and then don’t mention any use cases
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@db I mean “Reusable components” is not so much a ‘use case’ as the entire conception of CSS
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@mahryekuh ah yes, so the use case is the enabling of fascism
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@mahryekuh ah yes, so the use case is the enabling of fascism
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@db thank you meta!
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@db I like how they have a heading that says:
> Ideal use cases
And then text which says:
> StyleX works well in a wide variety of projects. However, it was designed to meet the challenges of particular use cases.
…and then don’t mention any use cases
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@db you found this to torment @fasterandworse didn't you
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"superior to what could be authored and maintained by hand" [citation needed]
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@db That’s funny I do everything I can to avoid writing JavaScript
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@db From the birthplace of React comes this new and horrifying way to throw separation of concerns in a blender.
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@db Just saw a video "why everyone is moving to stylex?"
I was gonna comment that it's not a question, then they fixed the title. It's a proper question now...
If that assertion is true, the reason would be that software developers are perpetual high schoolers chasing after the popular kids, I guess.
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@db "The styling system that powers Meta"? No thanks, I'll stick to futzing around in plain old hand-written CSS.
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@db why use cascading style sheets when you could use cascading variable names like “styles” and “color styles”

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@db Trying to read the document HTML tree and CSS of a Facebook page, is like the bit in Nolan's Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey enters the black hole...