Re:Stepping Away from Sass
by nine_k on Thursday April 25, 2019 @09:03PM
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Writing pure CSS and copy-pasting things here and there is easy when you start.
Where SASS shines is when you need to do a coordinated change, e.g. these things become gray instead of black. You have a ton of black things so no search and replace. And once you've painstakingly determined and edited the classes, the hard part is to be sure that you only changed what you had to, and nothing unrelated.
SASS preserves semantics which plain CSS is unable to express. It's like C vs assembly.
Where SASS shines is when you need to do a coordinated change, e.g. these things become gray instead of black. You have a ton of black things so no search and replace. And once you've painstakingly determined and edited the classes, the hard part is to be sure that you only changed what you had to, and nothing unrelated.
SASS preserves semantics which plain CSS is unable to express. It's like C vs assembly.