I'm using LessCSS, not Sass. And I wouldn't consider Sass life changing.
CSS looks like Assembly code ... you could
write it... but you'd need a damn good reason to
I think LessCSS is better because it keeps syntax compatibility, and you can take an existing CSS file and then gradually improve it. It's also, well, simpler.
That said, I can live without the improved CSS features. When I'm working on design-stuff, what really gets in my way is the lack of talent.
As for CoffeeScript, the language looks really interesting, but IMHO, it's just another tool that you need to add to an already HEAVY stack, another tool that breaks and needs special care from time to time, another tool to be learned.
And I'm not sure that CS is so life-changing. Does it fix browser incompatibilities for you? Does it optimize Javascript to run faster? Is it easier to debug? Does it have a kick-ass library that's optimized for it?
IMHO, syntactic sugar (without new paradigms) doesn't get you further than changing your text-editor / adding some newer snippets to it for the boilerplate.
That said, I can live without the improved CSS features. When I'm working on design-stuff, what really gets in my way is the lack of talent.
As for CoffeeScript, the language looks really interesting, but IMHO, it's just another tool that you need to add to an already HEAVY stack, another tool that breaks and needs special care from time to time, another tool to be learned.
And I'm not sure that CS is so life-changing. Does it fix browser incompatibilities for you? Does it optimize Javascript to run faster? Is it easier to debug? Does it have a kick-ass library that's optimized for it?
IMHO, syntactic sugar (without new paradigms) doesn't get you further than changing your text-editor / adding some newer snippets to it for the boilerplate.