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>>meetpa+(OP)
> Gemini 2.5 Pro now ranks #1 on the WebDev Arena leaderboard

It'd make sense to rename WebDev Arena to React/Tailwind Arena. Its system prompt requires [1] those technologies and the entire tool breaks when requesting vanilla JS or other frameworks. The second-order implications of models competing on this narrow definition of webdev are rather troublesome.

[1] https://blog.lmarena.ai/blog/2025/webdev-arena/#:~:text=PROM...

>>paulir+rt
Bwoah it's almost as if react and tailwind is the bees knees ind frontend atm

>>martin+4z
Sadly. Tailwind is so oof in my opinion. Lets import megabytes just so we don't have to write 5 whole CSS classes. I mean just copy paste the code.

Don't get me stared on how ugly the HTML becomes when most tags have 20 f*cking classes which could have been two.

>>byeart+hS
In most reasonably-sized websites, Tailwind will decrease overall bundle size when compared to other ways of writing CSS. Which is less code, 100 instances of "margin-left: 8px" or 100 instances of "ml-2" (and a single definition for ml-2)? Tailwind will dead-code eliminate all rules you're not using.

In typical production environments tailwind is only around 10kb[1].

[1]: https://v3.tailwindcss.com/docs/optimizing-for-production