gorbert

Curious about your experience on doing a CS undergrad for fun in the evenings. I work as a developer, but don't have an official CS degree. Some part of me wants it, even though I already have a BA (econ). I'm hoping to do something similar, but haven't jumped in yet. Is your undergrad online or in person? If it is online, any schools you recommend? Are you finding work + school exhausting?

They talk about reasons for choosing `--` here: https://www.xanthir.com/blog/b4KT0

TL, DR: There was discussion of using properties that look like `$foo` to define variables, but if they used `$foo` for variables, they would be unable to use it for future "variable-like" things. CSS custom properties behave differently from CSS pre-processor variables and they wanted to make that clear. Additionally, it’s to provide a way for custom properties to be used in any preprocessor.