[hcatlin]

Wow, didn't expect to see this at the top of HN. Thanks kudo for promoting the project!

Aaron Leung and I have been working on this for a while. I'm the original creator of Sass and Aaron is a badass computer linguist. Hoping to announce some big new features around the end of the year.

Official site is at: http://libsass.org Or, follow us on Twitter for more updates: @hcatlin & @akhleung

[akhleung]

Yes, playing catch-up with Ruby Sass has been difficult (the sophistication and subtlety of some of Sass's features are impressive), but we're hoping to make some big leaps by the end of the year!

[mradmin]

Are you planning on creating the sass-convert utility?

[WalterSear]

I'm sure I'm not the only person who's spent more time than they should trying to decide whether rebuilding sass would take longer overall than just waiting for the ruby one to finish compiling something :)

Thanks for this!

[mhogomchungu]

a bit of optimization in $src/libsass/copy_c_str.cpp

        char* copy_c_str(const char* orig)
        {
                size_t len =  strlen(orig) + 1 ;             
                char* copy = (char*) malloc(sizeof(char) * len );
                memcpy(copy, orig, len);
                return copy;
        }

[unwind]

Uh, okay. I didn't read the original, sounds somewhat scary.

Anyway, please don't cast the return value of malloc() in C (http://stackoverflow.com/a/605858/28169).

Also, of course len should be const and sizeof (char) should be removed. Also testing whether malloc() succeeded before relying on the result being valid is a good idea (but perhaps there's machinery in place to abort on error), as is deciding what to do if the input string is NULL.

[dchest]

Anyway, please don't cast the return value of malloc() in C (http://stackoverflow.com/a/605858/28169).

It's C++.

[stevekemp]

Wouldn't this be even better:

    return( strdup( orig ) );

?

[mtklein]

or maybe just #define copy_c_str strdup ?

[akhleung]

Thanks, I'll give it a try and benchmark it. Also, pull requests are welcome for this sort of thing!

[kudu]

No problem, thanks for your work on Sass! I suggest linking to the website from the GitHub repo, I hadn't seen it.

[nightwolf]

JFYI: The link to SassC on http://libsass.org is broken.