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by ataleb52 4897 days ago
I haven't used Sass yet but it seems pretty cool. Does anyone know how it compares to Less?
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homosaur 4897 days ago
Chris Coyier wrote a nice article detailing some of the details http://css-tricks.com/sass-vs-less/

The single biggest difference is in available style libraries in my opinion. I could probably never use Less because my workflow has become so heavily intertwined with Bourbon, Susy, and Compass.

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ataleb52 4897 days ago
This article is sweet! Sass is definitely looking more and more appealing.

Thanks for sharing!

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envex 4897 days ago
It's basically the same, minus a few differences in syntax.

ie. Mixins

LESS

    .border-radius(@radius){ border-radius: @radius; }
    .border-radius(5px);
SCSS/SASS

    @mixin border-radius(@radius){ border-radius: @radius; }
    @include border-radius(5px);
- - -

The biggest difference is being able remove curly braces and semi-colons, which can speed up your development

    h1
      font-weight: bold
      color: red
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nathos 4897 days ago
Ignoring Sass @extend is ignoring perhaps its most powerful feature:

http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#ex...

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ataleb52 4897 days ago
Ah, very nice. Will definitely have play around with it.

Thank you!!!

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