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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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