[hajile]

You will probably need to use node js anyway for other is build tools, but won't need ruby unless you use rails. Reduce your build to dependencies and use less.

That said, I recommend you look into stylus. It is better than either less or sass in my opinion as it gets rid of a lot of unnecessary syntax.

https://learnboost.github.io/stylus/

[jrub]

The "unnecessary syntax" that a lot of people tend to loathe, I actually prefer. Maybe not semi-colons, but it takes me a day or two to get out of/into the habit of typing semi-colons at the end of each line, so it's not a big deal.

But on the whole, I dislike whitespace-strict syntax (python for example). I'd much rather have my curly braces simply for the specificity they apply to the code for opening and ending blocks.