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If you're a one-man team who does the whole stack on your own personal project, something like HAML might be for you. However I have to say, in 10+ years of wo
by marstall 17y ago
If you're a one-man team who does the whole stack on your own personal project, something like HAML might be for you.
However I have to say, in 10+ years of working on multi-person, multi-discipline web teams, there isn't one to whom i could see having recommending something like HAML.
Just raises too high a bar for designers and front-end developers (ie CSS/HTML specialists), for whom learning a new language is actually a fairly big deal.
SASS seems to be enough like CSS that it wouldn't necessarily pose a comparable problem to the designer brain. I could see designers grokking its basic features like variables and seeing them as a thing that gave them more power.
If my experience is representative, though, configuration might be SASS' achilles heel right now. Really gave it the ol' college try and my SASS files never QUITE seemed to compile how and when i expected. Compass was even worse in that regard for me. I am getting old though, so maybe i've just lost a step or two :) Anyone else have similar experiences?
- nex3 17y agoI think you aren't giving designers enough credit. They're generally quite smart folks, and tend to pick up Haml and Sass just as quickly as programmers. I'm sad that you found Sass's configuration difficult. What in particular did you have a hard time figuring out how to do? We're always interested in improving the documentation and UI.