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

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Challenges in Extensibility and Distribution in Rust vs JavaScript

This chapter delves into the challenges of making a tool extensible in Rust, the complexities of the tool chain in Rust compared to JavaScript, considerations for porting functionalities to Rust, and the importance of benchmarking. It also discusses manipulating JavaScript typed arrays and buffers efficiently, using Tailwind CSS for post-processing tasks, optimizing the lightning feature to simplify the framework, and the evolution of Tailwind CSS towards zero dependency for easy browser integration.

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