My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be.

Re:My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be. by egypturnash on Monday September 03, 2012 @01:38AM (#4469233)

I was introduced to LESS earlier this year and loved it. When I had to rebuild my personal site this past month, I did it in LESS instead of CSS and probably cut my development time in half.

I'm never going to write raw CSS again.

I grabbed CodeKit, so I might try SASS the next time I'm building something on the web. I haven't really seen anything in the SASS vs. LESS shootouts that makes me go "dang I wish I could do that"; my CSS is relatively straightforward. Just having named colors, a couple color mixing functions, mixins, and nested syntax helped a LOT.

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Re:My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be. by nathos on Monday September 03, 2012 @02:15AM (#4469297)

@extend is one of the killer features of Sass that other preprocessors don't have: http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#ex...

It's true selector inheritance that will change the way you author styles.

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Re:My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be. by egypturnash on Monday September 03, 2012 @12:46PM (#4470968)

Ooh, I can see that being useful. As opposed to features like "you can do loops!" which kinda makes me go "why would I ever want to?".

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Re:My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be. by dsego on Monday September 03, 2012 @03:07AM (#4469415)

I started with Less a month ago (because it's used by bootstrap); I was so disappointed to find you could only "inherit" from mixins and classes. Just seems like a reasonable next step to include inheritance from any other selector.

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