Everyone--

Sass-lang is looking great (http://sass-lang.com). Nathan, congrats on  
merging edge into stable.

A comment on sass-lang. com: Just as I was a proponent of focus-on- 
benefit for Compass, I feel similarly about Sass. Getting rid of  
syntactic punctuators is (IMO) not the biggest advantage of Sass. But  
it is the top thing under "Beauty."

I'm a CSS lame-brain. The only thing that keeps me sane when I'm  
juggling CSS, HTML and the interaction that makes the rules govern  
display rendering of the DOM is the almost perfect symmetry between  
Sass and Haml markup of them. That leaves me some brain cells to focus  
on how the byzantine, quirky CSS rules might be interpreted to create  
a certain effect.

 From my perspective, the second biggest deal with Sass is a tie  
between its status as a language, complete with variables and mixins  
(abstractions of functionality), and its ability to reduce repetition  
through nesting (DRY syntax). While these may seem orthogonal, they  
work out to be complementary when mixins are used to describe commonly  
used patterns like sprites.

There are lots of CSS pain points and Sass solves some of them. The  
site doesn't (again, in my opinion) give as much insight into how and  
why Sass does this as it might. It just looks like Yet Another Syntax.

I hope this is helpful and not seeming overly critical. If there's a  
way I can chip in and help, let me know.

Steve

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