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1. David's Neighbour Mastodon 29 min later

   @zachleat They seem to have no release for the past 2 years (without showing releases on their Github page) and are in maintenance mode. I doubt they will close the gap now.

   The internet now has a "pre-baseline tool" and "post-baseline tool" epoch (where the baseline is the "coming into existence of the baseline concept" part, not the baseline itself).

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 1 day later

      @davidsneighbour tooling that requires updates when web standards add new features is so risky!

2. Mastro.{js,ts} Bluesky 6 hr later

   I you don’t need to support older Safari versions, you could just use native CSS nesting without any preprocessor/minifier.

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 17 hr later

      fwiw I’m not preprocessing (only post)

      1. Mastro.{js,ts} Bluesky 19 hr later

         pre- post- …all depends on the perspective! ;-)

3. jeremAIas Bluesky 13 hr later

   Long life to lightningcss.dev

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 17 hr later

      oh, nice! looks like they trimmed the package size down quite a bit since I last looked

4. Damian Walsh Bluesky 18 hr later

   I wouldn't say I'm glad this happened to you, but I am glad this sort of thing doesn't only happen to me. I went through this and the whole "why is it not working" thing a little bit ago and ended up with PostCSS/cssnano.

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 22 hr later

      🏆 the confusing part happens when the tool fails silently 🫣