According to The State of CSS, Tailwind usage has grown 41% from 2019 to 2022. At the same time, Bootstrap usage has only dropped 6.3% in that same period.
Bootstrap is still the most popular framework by a sizeable margin. It is still being actively developed and improved. Millions of websites and over 40,000 companies are still using Bootstrap in 2023, so it’s certainly not going to disappear anytime soon.
I have no doubt that there are a lot of benefits to using Tailwind. Nor do I doubt that its popularity will continue to grow, but personally, the whole idea of having twenty-plus utility classes strung horizontally in my HTML just makes me shudder. The minute I see a horizontal scroll bar in code I want to get away from it. The whole reason CSS was invented was to separate the styling from the structure. HTML should be limited to the structure of the page. All the same arguments against using inline styling in HTML are applicable to using Tailwind.
Anyway, who knows where we’ll be in five years with the way these chatbot AI’s are evolving. Building websites may eventually become as simple as ordering a pizza.