Funding/financial backing

[romainmenke]

Funding / financial backing is important for CSS.

• eslint vs. stylelint
• babel vs. postcss

In part this is caused by the massive ecosystem of frameworks/meta-frameworks/... that are JS first and where everything is X-in-JS.

Many of these projects are also commercial ventures or have substantial backing and contribute back to their dependencies.

In CSS we only have Tailwind that even comes close to that level of money flowing through.
(maybe there are other things I am not aware of?)

The same can be seen in other tools and parts of the ecosystem.

CSS support in VSCode is always lagging behind and no one on the VSCode team was hired specifically to work on CSS. While at the same time Microsoft is advertising native CSS support.

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I don't think it is sustainable to do large projects for CSS with the current level of funding.

We can do incremental work where a few individuals donate a few hours each week to improve a select few projects.

But I don't think we can produce a next generation of tooling without substantial backing.

I think we need a grant for CSS.

[Mouvedia]

During the initial phase, which crowdfunding should we use?
i.e. gofundme vs kickstarter vs indiegogo

I have a private project related to stylelint/css-parser and stylelint/stylelint.