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Interesting comments on the Extend page [1] on why LESS vs SASS: Why LESS? One of Bootstrap's creators wrote a quick blog post [2] about this, summarized here
by SkyMarshal 14y ago
Interesting comments on the Extend page [1] on why LESS vs SASS:
Why LESS?
One of Bootstrap's creators wrote a quick blog post [2] about this, summarized here:
- Bootstrap compiles faster ~6x faster with Less compared to Sass
- Less is written in JavaScript, making it easier to us to dive in and patch compared to Ruby with Sass.
- Less is more; we want to feel like we're writing CSS and making Bootstrap approachable to all.
[1]:
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/extend.html http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/extend.html
[2]: http://www.wordsbyf.at/2012/03/08/why-less/ http://www.wordsbyf.at/2012/03/08/why-less/
- rapind 14y agoTo each their own. The third point is actually why I prefer SASS. I like meaningful whitespace.
- knite 14y agoI'd prefer Stylus over both LESS and SASS. Now that Bootstrap is relatively stable, I intend to port it.
- masonhensley 14y agoIt may be easier to just help update this to 2.1- https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass
- superchink 14y agoI believe they were referring to porting bootstrap to Stylus (rather than SASS)…
- rapind 14y agoStylus is nice, but I'm just not comfortable dropping the colons yet. Maybe I'll give it a go for a project and see if I come around.