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Josh Collinsworth Apr 29, 2024

The question of whether CSS is a programming language serves only one purpose: to demote those who write it.

There is no confusion that needs to be clarified, and no other purpose in asking, beyond the most trivial kind of pedantry.

The debate itself is an act of gatekeeping, whether intentional or not. Its only significant effect is to elevate some work over other work, despite their essentially identical nature.

The only meaningful function of the question is segregation. #css

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Torb

@collinsworth The whole thing is resolved through the terms ”general purpose programming language” and ”domain-specific programming language”. There seems to be a weird double standard with CSS though. People aren't weird about SQL the way they are about CSS.

Hopefully it'll pass, I still remember people deriding users of scripting languages like Python/Perl/JavaScript/etc with not being real programmers but scripters, but that's rare to see these days.