I've maintained Linaria for six years. Here's why I built something new

Short summary

The maintainer of Linaria explains why he built dx-styles, a new zero-runtime CSS-in-JS library. Linaria's styled component interpolation causes build-time evaluation failures, and its composition model lacks first-class support for variants, slots, and themes needed by real design systems. dx-styles addresses both by removing styled, pushing toward static evaluation, and making recipes and token contracts core primitives.

• •Linaria's styled interpolation pattern is the main cause of build-time evaluation failures
• •Composition with variants, slots, and themes should be first-class in a styling library, not conventions
• •dx-styles is a new zero-runtime CSS-in-JS library built on wyw-in-js targeting design systems

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