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Tailwind is a CSS framework, and some soon-to-be cancelled product from Google that shares (stole) its name isn't going to change that in my mind. Honestly, that name collision seems in poor taste. They couldn't come up with a name that's not already used by a popular open source project?



You think the VPs and marketing people who name this shit ever ask an engineer for their opinion? Lol


I have no idea what VPs and marketing people at Google do, but whatever it is, they don't appear to be very good at it.


It's pretty obvious that when you prefix a product name with "Project" that's its not necessarily final. If the experiment is a success, it will indubitably be shipped under a less verbose name that doesn't collide.


Tailwind is a word in the English language, first mentioned in 1897: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tailwind

People always complain when companies trademark actual words as product names, can't have it both ways.


It's called "Tailwind CSS".




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