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For sure. I actually built roots on top of sass originally, and I became frustrated with it's limitations. I tried porting it to stylus because that was the only viable alternative that I knew of, and once I started working with it I couldn't go back.

The only drawback to stylus is that sometimes you can get caught with ambiguity. But I've tried to make roots so that if you are just starting, you deal with that as little as possible.



The major advantages to stylus (rather than putting down sass, which i do still love) that I saw were these:

- native css-style syntax for mixins

- ability to pull properties from a parent (killer)

- better programming logic and syntax

- runs nicely on javascript and ruby

- you can use brackets and semis or not without switching languages, and you can mix the two types of syntax

- easy to build libraries for and import libraries into


I'd love to know what you didn't like about SASS.




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