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Stylus+Nib is the way to go. It annoys me to no end how overlooked it is.

• ianstormtaylor 14y ago
  OP here. I actually used to use Stylus and Nib, so don't worry I didn't overlook it. Actually I'm the #5 on the Nib contributors list :p https://github.com/visionmedia/nib/graphs/contributors https://github.com/visionmedia/nib/graphs/contributors But it also used to annoy me how much it was overlooked. Not for Sass so much, but LESS is horrible compared to either Sass or Stylus. That being said, Stylus doesn't have the ability to extend selectors that don't appear in markup, the way @extend'ing %placeholders works in Sass. (Not that I blame TJ, the guy's awesome repo ratio is the best on github!) The thing that gets me frustrated with both Stylus and Jade is that they go a bit too far in the minimal syntax direction at the cost of other syntax improvements (since going minimal means its harder to differentiate pieces). The Sass syntax is more than simple enough, and the option to drop semi-colons is a cool thought experiment, but not so useful in real scenarios. And then there's momentum too. I mostly just wish that we could all get behind one pre-processor, and Sass is the one with the best momentum. (I say best, because LESS has some momentum, but it's syntax is way less thought through, and it has less active committers.) I don't blame TJ at all for this, but he definitely has less time to devote to Stylus than the multiple Sass contributors do. Mostly it's just a question of putting your chips with the player with the most momentum because that will bring you the fastest updates.