I use LESS because easy very easy to compile with node.js. Not to disregard the fact that Bootstrap 3 is LESS bound.
node-sass is just as easy to use!
Ask HN: SCSS/Sass vs. LESS
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Re: Ask HN: SCSS/Sass vs. LESS
#12I think the big reason people prefer SASS is because of Compass - http://compass-style.org/
Re: Ask HN: SCSS/Sass vs. LESS
#13Myself I prefer LESS since it's closer to CSS.
I believe most people using SASS do because of Rails.
Re: Ask HN: SCSS/Sass vs. LESS
#14Myself I prefer LESS since it's closer to CSS. I believe most people using SASS do because of Rails.
Sass includes SCSS.
Re: Ask HN: SCSS/Sass vs. LESS
#15You 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/
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.
Re: Ask HN: SCSS/Sass vs. LESS
#16I started with LESS (Bootstrap) and couldn't make the column gutters collapse. I did some research, found that I could do that in Zurb Foundation so I started using foundation. It was that simple difference that caused me to go with SASS over LESS. I actually wasn't doing anything custom in either framework at first, but once I wanted to start customizing the framework I started learning SASS and really like it. I've also been learning ruby/rails and it's nice that its written in the same language. I've now dropped the idea of a huge framework and have been learning compass and susy with sass and I really like that solution as opposed to an entire framework. I think both LESS and SASS are great and valid solutions to the problem. At this point it's just preference.
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Re: Ask HN: SCSS/Sass vs. LESS
#17I think much of the valid "us vs them" arguments came in the pre-SCSS days. Back then SASS was NOT a superset of css, while LESS was. So choosing between them could lead to very different codebases / workflows. These days they are both supersets (or rather, SCSS is a superset, you know what I mean), and they have many of the same options available, so IMHO the differences are trivial.