Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

I have so many huge, awesome projects to get to, but instead I just spent two hours failing to make some simple things line up with CSS. It would've taken a couple minutes in 2018's iOS, in 2008's Cocoa, in 1998's Win32, in 1988's Mac OS, or in 1968's half-finished Unix.

As you celebrate native applications dying, I sit here, having built web apps since before CSS existed, failing to implement simple CSS grid layouts that literally every native toolkit can do easily.

As usual, some replies say that it's not CSS's fault; it's my fault for not knowing CSS well enough after using it since CSS 1. I wonder whether they can imagine any tool where it wouldn't be my fault. And why this never happens with programming languages, even ones I use rarely.

A more generous subset of replies suggests flexbox and CSS grid. Flexbox was the thing I was failing to use. And neither of those obviate any of the massive baggage that's built up over 21 years. All of it is still there, still occurring in real systems, still has to be known.