- faster to write - less thinking - easier to modify and understand I've been writing longhand for 10 years, and it was a no brainer. Just download it and t

- faster to write - less thinking - easier to modify and understand I've been writing longhand for 10 years, and it was a no brainer. Just download it and try it on a project for a day. If you are not sold, you can always go back (since it just generates regular html). I also highly recommend sass over css. The benefits of sass over css is much greater than the benefits of haml over html.