The case for compiled, typed CSS (blame AI) (opens in new tab)

We spent years getting TypeScript to where it is. It already checks your APIs, your components, your state. Your CSS values are still strings that nothing compiles. Why wait for a new tool when the one you have can do this today? A 2025 academic study [1] found that 94% of LLM-generated compilation errors were type-check failures. GitHub's Octoverse report [2] cited the same stat to explain TypeScript's rise to the most-used language on the platform. In typed languages, the compiler catches m...