The Unstoppable Evolution of CSS into Everything

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This is a four-panel comic from the webcomic 'CommitStrip,' illustrating the escalating feature set of CSS over time. In the first panel, dated 'March 2019,' a female developer excitedly announces, 'Hurray! CSS is going to support trigonometric functions! We won't have to use JS for our calculations any more!' while her colleagues look on with mild apprehension. The second panel, '2020,' shows her celebrating again, exclaiming, 'YEAH! Finally we can do loops and conditionals in CSS!'. The third panel jumps to '2025,' where she, wearing a party hat, declares, 'Wahoo!! CSS 8 can finally run on the back-end and store data! We can get rid of Node and the database!'. The final panel, '2035,' depicts a chaotic celebration. The developer, now in a cheerleader outfit, screams, 'VICTORY! CSS 19 can auto-generate its own rules using AI and set up its own web server containers using a dedicated OS! EVERYTHING IS CSS!'. Her colleagues are now covered in cake and look terrified. The comic satirizes the concept of feature creep and the blurring of technological boundaries, humorously projecting a future where CSS, a language for styling, evolves into an all-powerful, sentient, full-stack development and infrastructure platform

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick First they came for JavaScript's calculations, and I did not speak out. Then they came for Node's server, and I did not speak out. Now my entire infrastructure is managed by a `!important` flag

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

First they came for JavaScript's calculations, and I did not speak out. Then they came for Node's server, and I did not speak out. Now my entire infrastructure is managed by a `!important` flag
Anonymous

At this rate, by CSS 20 :hover will double as the health-check endpoint and @media will autoscale the cluster
Anonymous

Remember when we complained about CSS-in-JS? Wait until you see JS-in-CSS-in-Docker-in-CSS running on CSS/OS, where every div is a microservice and flexbox handles orchestration
Anonymous

This comic perfectly captures the architectural horror of watching CSS evolve from 'separation of concerns' to 'CSS-in-JS' to 'JS-in-CSS' to eventually just 'CSS-is-everything.' By 2035, we'll finally achieve the dream: a single 50MB stylesheet that replaces your entire infrastructure, auto-generates its own Kubernetes cluster, and somehow still has specificity issues. The real joke? We're already halfway there with CSS Houdini, container queries, and CSS nesting - give it another decade and that 'CSS 19 with AI' panel won't seem so far-fetched. At least when everything breaks, we'll only need to debug one technology... right?
Anonymous

The future of full-stack: one .css file to rule them all, from layouts to ACID transactions
Anonymous

Give CSS a :has() and suddenly it’s scheduling its own sidecars - CAP now means Chrome, Autoprefixer, PostCSS
Anonymous

Everything is CSS? Perfect - an architecture where service discovery is !important, deployments run via @keyframes, and every incident is, quite literally, a cascade failure
@mvolfik 5y

Imagine if regex-parsable language would be capable of this
1. @viktorrozenko 5y
  
  Yooooo, I never even thought of this. It is actually a regular grammar...
@paul_thunder 5y

wait, WHAT?
@paul_thunder 5y

and WHY?
@CoolyFooly 5y

CSS interpreter under CSS
@azizhakberdiev 5y

2045: CSS replaced photoshop, 2077: 3 billon devicec run CSS Android apps and pc games are being written in CSS
D Y 5y

2100: css got sentient and conquer the humankind.
@iRoland 5y

2010 people said CSS is not a programming language
@sylfn 5y

2003. People say CSS is Counter Strike: Source
@RiedleroD 5y

1995: most people have not yet been bothered with CSS
@RiedleroD 5y

October 9th, 1994: last peaceful day on earth
1. @azizhakberdiev 5y
  
  Last peaceful day on earth was before IE created
Marco Steinberger 5y

lets just stop using CSS and start styling everything in javascript
1. @azizhakberdiev 5y
  
  CSS in JS There's nothing that js frameworks cannot do
2. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y
  
  We should make a new web standard that only we can open with our custom browser
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y
  
  Lets call it Jetspace Navigator
  
  @cheapgemmer 5y
  
  you mean jetscape* ?
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y
  
  No, space because its a jet
  
  @cheapgemmer 5y
  
  No space because its a jet
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y
  
  Lol okay then Jetscape
  
  @sylfn 5y
  
  you can use QML
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y
  
  No, we need to use intuitive syntax that every programmer would understand without documentation and using only two bracket characters for everything, and making spaces a part of the syntax with strict rules
  
  @feskow 5y
  
  Like QML analogue of HTML?
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y
  
  I don't know QML but I will check it out
  
  @azizhakberdiev 5y
  
  Lets return to old firefox browser which supported EcmaScript4 and e4x so we could make it something between browser and flash
Marco Steinberger 5y

you can't stop me
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  but I can make you join the group
@cheapgemmer 5y

probably npm package by that name already exists
@UshioCheng 5y

sub it for js, pretty much true
@callofvoid0 5y

outdated??
@callofvoid0 5y

oh wait comments were better😂

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