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Less. The dynamic stylesheet language.

16 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 3 stories, 13 comments · first 2010-04-30 · latest 2015-08-26

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  1. https://github.com/less/less.js 12k stars, yeah throw it out, it's done. https://github.com/sass/sass 6k stars, definitely more popular, if less stars means more popular. Obviously more front-end developers love sass! The evidence has…
    comment by lemevi · 2015-08-26 · in What’s New in Bootstrap 4
  2. …using the official LESS version. Yes, LESS is actively developed and (incrementally) changing: https://github.com/less/less.js As for Bootstrap, I have no insider information , but would be very surprised if they abruptly switched. On the…
    comment by chrisweekly · 2013-12-05 · in Bootstrap 3.0.3 released
  3. …by @extend-ing Bootstrap classes... " FYI, LESS has the same exact functionality since v1.4.0. https://github.com/less/less.js/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
    comment by bluetidepro · 2013-11-15 · in Twitter Bootstrap without all the debt
  4. …of your build process. There are a bunch of tools available: https://github.com/nzakas/cssembed https://github.com/cloudhead/less.js/wiki/Include-Data-URI-B... http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/inline-da...
    comment by jacobr · 2012-07-23 · in Sprite Cow: Generate CSS for sprite sheets
  5. lessc is part of less.js ( https://github.com/cloudhead/less.js/blob/master/bin/lessc ), so should be identical, but fair point.
    comment by Ysx · 2012-02-09 · in SimpLESS compiless .less into beautiful .css
  6. …an option to use yui-compress and it seems with the 1.2.1 version. I use the shortened -x argument. https://github.com/cloudhead/less.js/pull/504/files
    comment by latchkey · 2012-01-24 · in Twitter's Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback
  7. Or less.js, here: https://github.com/cloudhead/less.js/
    comment by Semiapies · 2011-01-24 · in The LESS CSS Grid
  8. Just use less.js for all your hsl needs in IE: https://github.com/cloudhead/less.js/wiki/Functions
    comment by danh · 2011-01-05 · in Mother-effing hsl()
  9. …----- [1]: http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ [2]: http://github.com/mootools/slick [3]: http://github.com/cloudhead/less.js
    comment by shawndumas · 2010-10-25 · in Why I call myself a Javascript Programmer
  10. The benchmark file, http://github.com/cloudhead/less.js/blob/master/benchmark/be... Which has all the features of LESS in it, and weighs 94KB (3600loc), compiles in 130ms on my macbook pro. I would say that's plenty fast. You can try it…
    comment by cloudhead · 2010-06-21 · in Less.js will obsolete CSS
  11. It's interesting looking at his code ( http://github.com/cloudhead/less.js/blob/master/dist/less-1.... ). It's clear, well described, and ambitious.
    comment by trop · 2010-06-20 · in Less.js will obsolete CSS
  12. That's one reason why lesscss is being ported to JavaScript. http://github.com/cloudhead/less.js
    comment by sjs · 2010-05-01 · in Coding Horror: What's Wrong With CSS
  13. Noted in the comments of the article is that less is moving to JavaScript. http://github.com/cloudhead/less.js
    comment by pstuart · 2010-04-30 · in Coding Horror: What's Wrong With CSS