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Personally, I have recently come to love SASS after using it for the past five months on a very large project. What I hate about it, though, is the implementation, which is currently (AFAIK) available only in Ruby, and I just can't stand all the issues with dependencies, fickle behaviour of support apps and the like.

I'm yearning for a good Python-based implementation, ideally a drop-in with Django so I could use SASS files directly instead of Django templates, but nothing fully satisfactory has been produced yet (and I don't have the time to do it myself).

Please note: this is not intended as Ruby bashing, it's a perfectly fine language; it's just that I've practically never had a smooth experience with it.

Edit: Ah, and yes -- the author's job could be even easier if you used the Compass framework (specifically, it has a predefined helper for those gradients, and other stuff that are currently in a browser-prefix-hell): http://compass-style.org



A C implementation just came out recently[0]. Unfortunately, no support for indented SASS, only the CSS-superset SCSS.

[0]: https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass


Uh... what about this one? https://github.com/Kronuz/pyScss It seems to support compass. Could you report whether it's good, because I would like to get into SASS as well and I'm a python-guy.

edit: in the readme there is even a django example.


Hmm this seems interesting, thanks, I'll check it out! :-)


For the rare (on HN, it seems) PHP user, I work on the latest iteration of PHamlP (stripped down to just SASS):

https://github.com/richthegeek/phpsass

It's feature-complete up to 3.2, although there are a few bugs that still need to be ironed out (very rare to come across).



Although not Python, a Scala and thus Java version has been out for quite a while.

See https://github.com/derekjw/scala-sass-compiler

I haven't actually used it yet though, so I can't comment on its quality.




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