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I'm personally a big fan of SCSS over both CSS and regular Sass. Keeps the same syntax so it's not hard to pick up, but fixes some of the CSS jank.
That said, I think they're rolling out a new CSS version that covers some of those tweaks? I recall hearing abt that
CSS has been growing a lot of "super powers" lately, that used to require a pre-processor. Custom properties (variables), nesting,
calc
, andcolor-mix
used to be things we'd reach for a preprocessor for, but can now be done 100% in pure CSS. And generally, the CSS based versions are better than their old preprocessor counterparts.calc
can mix units, so you can easily do things likecalc(100% - 1rem)
to subtract a rem from 100% of the parent container. Can't do that in Sass. Custom properties can be set by Javascript, or by media queries, and follow CSS scoping rules. Thats how I handle light/dark mode on my site.That sounds cool! I didn’t know that. Thanks for elaborating.