Why use Sass (not SCSS)? [closed]

Answer 1

Pros: It's cleaner. Less visual noise. More elegant.

Cons: The big one: Can't use newline. This is the only thing that I don't like about SASS. See example below. The rest: Higher barrier to entry for people who struggle with the apparently difficult concept of indentation.

In SASS you are forced to stick to lines. So if you have

@function -create-gradient-from-color($bgcolor:#000,$depth:6%)
    ...code...

then you can't do this, which i find much cleaner

@function -create-gradient-from-color(
    $bgcolor:     #000,
    $depth:       6%
)
    ...code...

That will throw an error because of the newlines.

But you can do that in SCSS, since it doesn't care about newlines

@function -create-gradient-from-color(
    $bgcolor:     #000,
    $depth:       6%
) {
    ...code...
}

So I find myself keeping things terse in optional argument strings to prevent this situation.