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CSS Evolution: From Preprocessors to Modern Platform
CSS has evolved over 30 years from a simple styling language to a platform that now includes features like variables and nesting. Developers built tools like Sass and CSS-in-JS to fill gaps, but modern CSS has caught up. The article argues that CSS was never broken, just incomplete, and the community's workarounds shaped how we think about styling.
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The piece offers a useful historical perspective but understates how frameworks like Tailwind continue to thrive even as native CSS improves.
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