The state of CSS in 2019 (Changelog Interviews #349)

We’re talking with Sacha Greif to discuss the State of CSS survey and results. CSS is evolving faster than ever. And, coming off the heels of their annual State of JavaScript survey, they’ve decided to take on the world of styles and selectors to help identify the latests patterns and trends in CSS.

We talk through the history and motivations of this survey, the methodology of their data collection, the tooling involved to build and run the survey, and of course we dig deep into the survey results and talk through the insights we found most interesting.

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Featuring:

• Sacha Greif – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• State of CSS survey and the results for 2019
• State of JavaScript
• State of JavaScript on GitHub
• JS Party #54: trust.js but verify (malware, opaque surveys, and console.log debugging) and Sacha’s response “Mainly, that it wasn’t clear who exactly took the survey, how they found the survey, and whether that population sample was representative of the overall JavaScript ecosystem.”
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