Re:Stepping Away from Sass
by jcr1488 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @09:08PM
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> Everyone forgets that SASS is meant to be programmable CSS
That sounds like a solution looking for a problem... The vast majority of real SASS I've seen has been much like the stuff this article mentions.
> If you treat it as CSS+ then you're not really benefitting from it's true potential
People aren't looking for "potential", they're looking for a way to accomplish their design goals whilst keeping their stylesheets maintainable. The real use cases where SASS is actually worth the complexity overheads are getting fewer and fewer.
That sounds like a solution looking for a problem... The vast majority of real SASS I've seen has been much like the stuff this article mentions.
> If you treat it as CSS+ then you're not really benefitting from it's true potential
People aren't looking for "potential", they're looking for a way to accomplish their design goals whilst keeping their stylesheets maintainable. The real use cases where SASS is actually worth the complexity overheads are getting fewer and fewer.