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I'm on Windows and I don't want to install Visual Studio just because of libsass...

• pyre 11y ago
  Should the people that wrote libsass have decided whether or not to write it in C based on whether or not you would have to install Visual Studio to get it working on Windows? As a C library, it allows linking from several different languages, so maybe their motivations were getting a non-Ruby Sass implementation that could be used in whatever language you need it in. Maybe then the people that wrote the JS to link against the C library are the people that burdened you with this hardship then? Should every person that wants to use libsass from JavaScript be deterred against creating that JS library linking against libsass just because it might cause you some sort of "software installation hardship?" I'm really confused what you feel the "ideal world" of your rant is. That the libsass people should have written it in JavaScript? How then would (e.g.) Python compile Sass? By installing Node and calling out to run the JavaScript libsass? Wouldn't that just lead to more people saying things like "Why should I have to install Node just to compile some Sass?" I'm sure the initial implementation of Sass being in Ruby was great for Rails developers because Ruby was already a part of their toolchain. For other projects that were not using Ruby though, Sass required an install of Ruby just for the purpose of compiling Sass.