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		adamwathan on March 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open-sourcing our progress on Tailwind CSS v4.0 We considered it but it felt too magical to make any CSS variable under `:root` automatically drive the existence of utility classes. Putting things under a custom at-rule like `@theme` makes that opt-in, because we know anything you put there is actually intended to drive your utility classes.

TIPSIO on March 6, 2024 [–]

Makes sense! Thanks for the reply, Adam.

Best of luck and thanks for driving progress forward with the project still.

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