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Re:Announcing CoffeeScript 2 by tedmiston on Monday September 18, 2017 @11:30PM (#15281584)
> it's a lot more cognitive overhead for what amounts to a little syntactic sugar.

This isn't really accurate with respect to meta languages like SCSS that add new features not present in the underlying language, like variables.

You really are missing out on a lot by not using the meta languages.

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Re:Announcing CoffeeScript 2 by clairity on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @05:07PM (#15288811)
yes, variables are nice. hopefully the glacially slow integration of them into css proper (css custom properties) will arrive soon: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/--*
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