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PostCSS allows you to opt-in to the features you need with plugins. This allows you to set it up to behave exactly like Sass, with nesting, mixing, extends, and more. On the other hand, it allows you to use plugins by themselves for things like auto-prefixing, minification, and more. You can even set up your own custom "stack" of plugins to do exactly what you like. See More
Other options listed include various pain-points like use of @ symbols or too much cruft; because Garden is just Clojure, and Clojure is a very well-designed language aimed to emphasize simplicity and positive developer experience (without semantic whitespace problems), you have the full benefit of a well-designed and general-purpose syntax. See More
Another big advantage for Sass is the very active community pushing the development forward at a rapid pace. Sass is constantly coming out with bug fixes, and are often the first to come out with improvements. This is an important factor to keep in mind when picking a preprocessor to invest your time into. See More
It comes with two possible syntaxes: Sass - No parens or semicolons allowed and the nesting is dictated with whitespace. SCSS - SCSS syntax is a superset of CSS – which means SCSS can be written as CSS, but has been expanded to include the features of Sass as well. SCSS is easier to pick up for beginners and Sass has a cleaner syntax. Having both syntaxes means you can pick the one that best suits your coding style. The mandatory syntax rules for both SCSS and Sass results in a more consistent code. For a more detailed analysis between Sass and SCSS go here. To see a nice comparison of the Sass syntax against CSS and SCSS go here. See More
Sass can be used with a framework called Compass, which provides additional functions and mixins which can reduce the amount of code you have to write. For example, Compass will take care of vendor prefixes. This: div {
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(#F00, #000);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(#F00, #000);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(#F00, #000);
background-image: linear-gradient(#F00, #000);
} Can be written as: .gradient {
@include background-image(linear-gradient(#F00, #000));
} For a full list of features, check out the Compass documentation. See More
Because Less has a lightweight feature set, is syntactically similar to CSS and can be run client side with file conversion on a page reload, it is easy to pick up by anyone familiar with CSS & the very basics of JS. Also, Less has detailed and well-organized documentation, GUI apps that can watch and compile code for you and a huge, active and helpful community. See More
The LESS syntax is essentially the same as CSS with extensions for dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. Variables: @color: #4D926F;
#header {
color: @color;
}
h2 {
color: @color;
} Mixins: .rounded-corners (@radius: 5px) {
-webkit-border-radius: @radius;
-moz-border-radius: @radius;
-ms-border-radius: @radius;
-o-border-radius: @radius;
border-radius: @radius;
}
#header {
.rounded-corners;
}
#footer {
.rounded-corners(10px);
} Nested Rules: #header {
h1 {
font-size: 26px;
font-weight: bold;
}
p { font-size: 12px;
a { text-decoration: none;
&:hover { border-width: 1px }
}
}
} See More
Stylus has an extremely terse syntax. Colons, semicons and braces are all optional allowing you to write Stylus code however you want. hover-darken(percent)
if @background
&:hover
background: darken(@background, percent)
.test
background: blue
hover-darken(50%) The hierarchy is required to be whitespace indented which makes it easier to identify which parent selectors child selectors belong to. See More
Not only does Stylus support all the features from Less and Sass, it provides features not found anywhere else: You can get properties from parents and pull them into children and/or mixins - if the property isn't found, it will bubble up until it finds a match Introspective API, where a CSS block can tell if it’s at root level or not and change its output based on this Splats - taking variable amount of arguments in as an array Automatically vendor prefixes @keyframes Pass a CSS literal block wherever you want Convert files to base64 See More
One of Stylus' distinguishing features is transparent mixins: reusuable, possibly dynamic styles that look exactly like native CSS properties. This is particularly useful for using future non-prefixed properties and having them transparently expand to their prefixed counterparts without any special, preprocessor-specific syntax. See More
The Stylus syntax is very loose and that leads to ambiguity where some definitions can mean different things. For example, hashed objects cannot be used when you choose to omit colons in your definitions, because the dot notated object getters could also be a nested class selector. As a result, you lose being able to use hashed object getters if you decided to write Stylus without colons. See More
Nib is Stylus's answer to Compass, but with the advantage of transparent mixins. Ride css add dozens of useful mixins to Stylus. Compatible with axis, nib and other mixins libraries. Roots is a awesome toolkit that contains a CSS library for Stylus that provides the benefits of Nib and more. It is essentially a collection of mixins that add a variety of enhancements to the Stylus workflow. See More
Rework isn't a language for compiling to CSS but rather a library around parsing it and transforming it. For example, a vendor prefix plugin will inject prefixes around needed properties so you don't have to muddy up your CSS dealing with it. Because Rework is built around plugins at its core, it makes for easier plugin writing if you find you want to add in new functionality. See More