Thoughts on LESS or SASS

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  • mg330

    I know enough CSS to get done what I need to do on sites. If I get stuck I'll find tips online and eventually figure it out. Anyhow, I read some general stuff on LESS and SASS, and walked away with one main thought: someone made them up to solve a problem that didn't exist, and succeeded in convincing some people they had that problem, and that doing what looked like twice the work would solve that nonexistent problem.

    Seriously though, maybe there's a great reason for it, but the need for them to me implies that there's something awful or lacking about a CSS file, and what it's intended to do.

    When I saw CSS examples that had this stuff tied into them, the CSS selectors when using less or sass were just about the same length as CSS not using them. So what's the payoff?

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