Tailwind finds “stable, long-term home” with Shopify acquisition | BetaKit

https://betakit.com/tailwind-finds-stable-long-term-home-with-shopify-acquisition/

TIL that Tailwind CSS is Canadian lol

Ottawa-based Shopify is acquiring Tailwind Labs, the Canadian company behind the popular, free, open-source web development framework Tailwind CSS.

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the_abecedarian@piefed.social · 43 pts · 13d

"Ottawa-based, fascist-funding Shopify", to be exact

Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 13d (3 replies)

This is not good shopify should be burnt to the F’ing ground.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 13d (2 replies)

If only their product wasn't good... but it is and everyone and their mother's using it.

dudesss@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 5d (1 reply)

We are going to need some alternatives.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 5d

If I luck into an inheritance so I could quit my job, that would be one of the projects I'd look into starting a worker co-op around. 😄

rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 13 pts · 13d

Look into the somewhat recent ruby gems controversy, Shopify played a major role in it and it wasn't a good one.

mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 13d

This is concerning. Luckily I'm not one of those people who doesn't know how to write vanilla css

AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 13d

What else are people using nowadays? I really liked tailwind

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 5d

gross. to the dumpster pile