LESS animation library

Re:LESS animation library by grabastic on Monday December 24, 2012 @05:49PM (#4964405)

I think that Less has actually won the popularity race thanks to Bootstrap, a nicer website/docs, and front end devs not wanting to learn how to install Ruby. I think it's unfortunate because Sass is technically superior, imo.

http://cdn.css-tricks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Charts-...

(Could be skewed by the audience participating in the poll, of course.)

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Re:LESS animation library by Benferhat on Monday December 24, 2012 @06:26PM (#4964464)

Correct, LESS is all I use right now because of Bootstrap. I don't get it though, LESS is open source. If it's so inferior, why aren't there more pull requests to make it better?

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Re:LESS animation library by grabastic on Monday December 24, 2012 @06:50PM (#4964525)

I'd imagine it's because people who aren't satisfied with Less are using/contributing to Sass instead... and vice versa. ;)

There are also big differences in design philosophy. I love the if/else, while, and for options that Sass provides, but Less has chosen to forgo that for (imo) a clunkier syntax. Things like that are unlikely to change.

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Re:LESS animation library by Benferhat on Monday December 24, 2012 @06:53PM (#4964537)

> Things like that are unlikely to change.

Breaks my heart...

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Re:LESS animation library by pault on Monday December 24, 2012 @03:14PM (#4963935)

There are some reasons for using one or the other depending on your needs. Ruby vs. JS, for one.

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Re:LESS animation library by fourstar on Monday December 24, 2012 @03:38PM (#4964006)

I disagree. I used to use LESS since I could use node, but quickly realized it's inferior to the Sass/Compass combo. 99.9% of the servers that you are able to run node.js on will also allow you to install/run Ruby. What are the other reasons that I'm missing?

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Re:LESS animation library by jeremiep on Monday December 24, 2012 @05:47PM (#4964398)

I'm curious about what makes Sass/Compass superior to LESS?

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Re:LESS animation library by grabastic on Monday December 24, 2012 @06:01PM (#4964433)

A simple example...

    // Less
    .rounded-corners (@radius: 5px) {
        -webkit-border-radius: @radius;
        -moz-border-radius: @radius;
        -ms-border-radius: @radius;
        -o-border-radius: @radius;
        border-radius: @radius;
    }

    // Sass + Compass
    .rounded-corners {
        // All vendor prefixes are generated for you
        @include border-radius(5px); 
    }

I'm sure there are plugins for Less that can accomplish the same. I just grabbed this code from the Less homepage.

Another thing... Sass has much nicer control flow (if/else, while, for) that can create very powerful mixins.

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Re:LESS animation library by ww520 on Monday December 24, 2012 @05:57PM (#4964423)

Does anyone else use Sass besides the Rail devs?

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Re:LESS animation library by lowboy on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @12:54AM (#4965237)

I'm not a Rails guy and I use Sass exclusively. I agree with its design decisions and functionality more so than Less. I've found that most people who install and run Node for command line tools usually also have Ruby in their stack.

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Re:LESS animation library by fourstar on Monday December 24, 2012 @11:53PM (#4965108)

I'm not a Rails dev at all, but I do use Python, PHP, and now Grails with Sass.

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Re:LESS animation library by Benferhat on Monday December 24, 2012 @06:30PM (#4964474)

Foundation is based on SASS.

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