[dart-misc] Announcing Dart Sass

['Natalie Weizenbaum' via Dart Misc]

Hi everyone,

You all probably mostly know me from my work on the Dart team, but in my
20% time I'm also the lead designer and developer of Sass
<http://sass-lang.com/>, the internet's oldest and most popular CSS
preprocessor. Over the past six months I've been working on an entirely new
implementation, and today I released Dart Sass
<https://github.com/sass/dart-sass> 1.0.0-alpha.1.

You can read the public announcement
<http://blog.sass-lang.com/posts/1022316-announcing-dart-sass> for full
details, but the short version is this: Dart Sass aims to be much faster
than the original Ruby implementation, while also being much quicker to
develop than LibSass, which is written in C++. It can also be compiled to
JavaScript, and my goal is for it to be as easy as possible to drop in to
existing JavaScript build systems both internally and externally. I'll
continue maintaining Ruby Sass for the next year, but eventually Dart Sass
will take its place as the reference implementation of the language.

If anyone's interested in helping out, I'd love more contributors. Sass is
widely-used, and soon enough Dart Sass will be the most advanced
implementation around. Even a small contribution will make many users'
lives better. The project is still young, so there's plenty of work of all
sorts to do, and I'll be happy to help out anyone who's interested in
giving it a try.

- Natalie

[Istvan Soos]

Thank you, this is great news!

Cheers,
Istvan

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 10:11 PM, 'Natalie Weizenbaum' via Dart Misc

Post by 'Natalie Weizenbaum' via Dart Misc
Hi everyone,
You all probably mostly know me from my work on the Dart team, but in my 20%
time I'm also the lead designer and developer of Sass, the internet's oldest
and most popular CSS preprocessor. Over the past six months I've been
working on an entirely new implementation, and today I released Dart Sass
1.0.0-alpha.1.
You can read the public announcement for full details, but the short version
is this: Dart Sass aims to be much faster than the original Ruby
implementation, while also being much quicker to develop than LibSass, which
is written in C++. It can also be compiled to JavaScript, and my goal is for
it to be as easy as possible to drop in to existing JavaScript build systems
both internally and externally. I'll continue maintaining Ruby Sass for the
next year, but eventually Dart Sass will take its place as the reference
implementation of the language.
If anyone's interested in helping out, I'd love more contributors. Sass is
widely-used, and soon enough Dart Sass will be the most advanced
implementation around. Even a small contribution will make many users' lives
better. The project is still young, so there's plenty of work of all sorts
to do, and I'll be happy to help out anyone who's interested in giving it a
try.
- Natalie
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[Steve Lympany]

Hi,
Very timely! As a newish Ubuntu user, my first attempts to get Ruby-sass
going failed. So, I've just (obviously!) installed dart-sass and run it in
Webstorm's terminal. Very quick, and seems to work with my complex (for me)
sass loops and variables.

$otherCharsPeople: A B C D E F G H I J K L;

$count: 0;

@each $p1 in $otherCharsPeople {
$rr: 6;
$bb: 1;
@each $p2 in $numberChars {
@each $p3 in $numberChars {
$count: $count+1;
@if ($count<=$maxpeople) {
$bb: $bb+1;
@if ($bb>16) {
$bb: 1;
}
$rr: $rr+1;
@if ($rr>16) {
$rr: 1;
}
$b1: $bb+1;
$b2: $bb+2;
$b3: $bb+3;
$b4: $bb+4;
.#{$p1}#{$p2}#{$p3} {
border: 1px solid #555555;
text-align: center;
background-color: unquote(nth($firstCharsLight,$rr)
+ nth($charsHigh2,$bb)
+ nth($charsHigh2,$b1)
+ nth($charsHigh2,$b2)
+ nth($charsHigh2,$b3)
+ nth($charsHigh2,$b4));
}
.#{$p1}#{$p2}#{$p3}:hover {
border: 1px solid #000000;
text-align: center;
background-color: white;
color: unquote(nth($firstCharsLight,$rr)


Thanks!
Steve

Post by 'Natalie Weizenbaum' via Dart Misc
Hi everyone,
You all probably mostly know me from my work on the Dart team, but in my
20% time I'm also the lead designer and developer of Sass
<http://sass-lang.com/>, the internet's oldest and most popular CSS
preprocessor. Over the past six months I've been working on an entirely new
implementation, and today I released Dart Sass
<https://github.com/sass/dart-sass> 1.0.0-alpha.1.
You can read the public announcement
<http://blog.sass-lang.com/posts/1022316-announcing-dart-sass> for full
details, but the short version is this: Dart Sass aims to be much faster
than the original Ruby implementation, while also being much quicker to
develop than LibSass, which is written in C++. It can also be compiled to
JavaScript, and my goal is for it to be as easy as possible to drop in to
existing JavaScript build systems both internally and externally. I'll
continue maintaining Ruby Sass for the next year, but eventually Dart Sass
will take its place as the reference implementation of the language.
If anyone's interested in helping out, I'd love more contributors. Sass is
widely-used, and soon enough Dart Sass will be the most advanced
implementation around. Even a small contribution will make many users'
lives better. The project is still young, so there's plenty of work of all
sorts to do, and I'll be happy to help out anyone who's interested in
giving it a try.
- Natalie