Justice for CSS

CSS has evolved from 50 properties in 1996 to over 500 today, enabling complex projects such as a CSS-only Doom recreation, holographic Pokémon cards, and a database-query engine. Despite its growing power, CSS is often undervalued, seen as decorative or “feminine,” which affects developer recognition, salary, and hiring practices. The article highlights the creator Håkon Wium Lie’s obscurity and the ongoing debate over CSS’s status as a true programming language.