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A C/C++ implementation of a Sass compiler

27 mentions on Hacker News by 27 people: 5 stories, 22 comments · first 2012-04-23 · latest 2026-09-22

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  1. …was something funky with the AMD processor's RDRAND. A motherboard BIOS flash update fixed it. https://github.com/sass/libsass/issues/3151
  2. …and rewrote the core data handling in C. Even in cases where C/C++ weren't the obvious choices ( https://github.com/sass/libsass ). And yes, sometimes one ends up picking a chain of subpar languages and rotating them du-jour. But in that…
  3. …also Skia and libsass, two projects actually written in C++. In Sass, the issue is a nullptr issue: https://github.com/sass/libsass/issues/3001 In Skia the bug was in intrinsics code: https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/0f55db539032a23b528…
    comment by pnako · 2019-11-08 · in Comparing Parallel Rust and C++
  4. It's worth noting that libsass's source map support is still ironing out bugs (i.e. https://github.com/sass/libsass/pull/1463 ), though it seems that the compilation itself is relatively solid. My team finds that the time saved in…
    comment by btown · 2015-08-31 · in Office UI Fabric
  5. You can use LibSass which is written in C++, to avoid the Ruby dependencies. https://github.com/sass/libsass
    comment by mccada · 2015-08-25 · in What’s New in Bootstrap 4
  6. …tends to be more favorable by front-end developers. It also compiles faster thanks to Libsass." https://github.com/sass/libsass
    comment by Scottopherson · 2015-08-25 · in What’s New in Bootstrap 4
  7. Here: https://github.com/sass/libsass#contribution-agreement I think it's unfortunate. While I'm comfortable with assigning copyright to nonprofit organizations with a commitment to keep code free and enforce the license, I'm not…
    comment by davexunit · 2015-08-20 · in Bootstrap 4 alpha
  8. There's no reason to use Ruby https://github.com/sass/libsass
    comment by thegeekpirate · 2015-08-19 · in Bootstrap 4 alpha
  9. …re-implementation of Sass in C with [probably] bindings to your favorite programming language. [0]: https://github.com/sass/libsass
  10. ▲ 2
    Libsass 3.2.0 released. Biggest release to date
    story by xzyfer · 2015-04-27 · 0 comments
  11. ▲ 1
    Libsass 3.2 preview release is out
    story by dhotson · 2015-03-12 · 0 comments
  12. It's not quite there yet, but they've made a lot of progress in the last few months: https://github.com/sass/libsass/wiki/The-LibSass-Compatibili... https://github.com/sass/libsass/milestones/3.2 http://sass-compatibility.github.io/ It's…
  13. …key on any GitHub page with source code. It'll instantly expand the URL to its canonical form, e.g. https://github.com/sass/libsass/blob/master/parser.cpp#L29-L... to https://github.com/sass/libsass/blob/fca1f75a14fe5336c7b1a4b... which…
    comment by joliss · 2014-07-17 · in Don't link to line numbers in GitHub
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    Libsass 2.0 supports .sass syntax
    story by chrisdl · 2014-06-05 · 0 comments
  15. …push the compressed css to a cdn or media server. You might want to look into the C implementation? https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass
    comment by dangayle · 2014-02-13 · in Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS
  16. As of a few days ago it is complete enough to compile bootstrap-sass :) https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass/issues/231#issuecomment-3...
    comment by glebm · 2014-02-01 · in Bootstrap 3.1 released
  17. https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass
    comment by zachlatta · 2014-01-30 · in Bootstrap 3.1 released
  18. …since I haven't gotten used to them. I know it's in the works or at least being thought about: https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass/issues/122 .
  19. …like more people use the brace syntax (roughly 980k SCSS files on Github, vs. 85k SASS files). [1]  https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass/issues/16
    comment by lobster_johnson · 2013-11-26 · in Libsass – C implementation of a Sass compiler
  20. …their template based parser with a lot of implementation code in a header file kind of scares me ( https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass/blob/master/prelexer.hpp )
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    Libsass – C implementation of a Sass compiler
    story by kudu · 2013-11-26 · 75 comments
  22. …uses node-sass ( https://github.com/andrew/node-sass ). There are other implementations available: https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass/wiki/Implementations
    comment by vincentmac · 2013-11-22 · in Zurb Foundation 5 Released
  23. I'm more curious about this which is mentioned on the page: https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass/ has anyone got it working with rails? Faster SASS compilation would make life much better (especially when bootstrap or compass are involved).
    comment by te_chris · 2013-11-21 · in Zurb Foundation 5 Released
  24. …(the original author of Sass) created libsass, a port of Sass to C for portability. Check it out: https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass
    comment by tomeric · 2012-05-17 · in SASS vs. LESS
  25. …SASS and the new libsass library? If you want speed, you can't beat a 0-dependency c / c++ library. https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass
    comment by jameskilton · 2012-05-09 · in More, a CSS compiler
  26. …came out recently[0]. Unfortunately, no support for indented SASS, only the CSS-superset SCSS. [0]: https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass
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    A C implementation of a Sass compiler
    story by g3orge · 2012-04-23 · 24 comments