Adam Wathan - Tailwind CSS v4, The Evolution and Technical Journey

This week we talk to Adam Wathan, the creator of Tailwind CSS. We go into all the changes for Tailwind CSS v4, discussing how they use Rust and Lightning CSS. Adam also shares about how they've been monetizing the tool and building out Tailwind Labs. We also address some of the heated feedback from the Twitter.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:05:21 The Evolution and Technical Journey of Tailwind CSS
00:12:43 Ad
00:14:19 Tailwind CSS v4
00:36:22 Using Lightning CSS
00:43:27 Monetizing the Tool
00:56:59 Addressing the Twitter Mob

[@JoshMedeski]

I've been a long time TailwindCSS user, it's awesome to see its progression over the years. Thanks for having him on the show, really interesting conversation!

[@devtoolsfm]

Our pleasure!

[@Huntabyte]

Great podcast guys, Adam is quite the fella! Nice to see insightful questions being asked and interruptions kept near 0.

[@devtoolsfm]

We agree!

[@hyphenzero]

Cool piece of art in the background of Adam’s studio, and great questions and overall conversation!

[@MyGeorge1964]

How comes Tailwind css does not have a marketing page for announcements of new releases or confs etc...

[@StingSting844]

Chad guy. Not only did he succeed in open source and make money out of it, he personally had a great fitness transformation. Brilliant all around!

[@ankitdas2197]

Tailwind css is just amazing

[@oscarljimenez5717]

Amazing podcast. Huge fan of what tailwind have achieve and how it make us to thing CSS in a new way.
For a future podcast would be cool if you guys invite @astahmer Alexandre Stahmer, co-creator of PandaCSS, so we can see the other side of CSS.