Hey wow didn't realize this had been posted on hacker news - I'm the author of roots and here way too late to field comments. Thanks so much for the feedback Ia

Hey wow didn't realize this had been posted on hacker news - I'm the author of roots and here way too late to field comments. Thanks so much for the feedback Ian! No need to assume such a critical tone, I'm open to any and all feedback, so let's keep it friendly. Let me try to explain why I have that intro paragraph there. Stylus is a very open and flexible language, and the same statement can be written many different ways. In addition, it's not as commonly used as something like sass, so there aren't well-known conventions that have arisen. All I was doing here was trying to establish and explain a couple conventions, to make life easier and more clear for everyone. In addition, someone randomly posted the documentation page for the css library here rather than the homepage. This might be part of the reason why you were confused about what exactly this is. Would love to hear more about how I could be 'more compelling' with this - always a great goal and something I hope I am able to do -- of course keeping in mind that this is a documentation page.