Friday evening was Sassy at the Grand Connaught Rooms!Friday, Sass won an award at the Net Awards, a ceremony that rewards the best technologies and individuals in the industry for their achievements. It doesn’t really mean anything, but what a great party!
Although I think this type of competitive event is a bit wanky in our industry, let’s celebrate, and then take a step back to see why Sass won this award…
Why is Sass a game changer?
Large companies now openly use CSS pre-processors. In 2013 the discussion fully shifted from “Should I use a CSS pre-processors?” to “What CSS pre-processor should I use?”. Sass’ maturity, support, robustness and power have made such tools acceptable for teams that want a truly reliable front-end stack.
What people don’t necessarily know, it’s that Chris and Nathan (the two current core developers of Sass) are included in discussions about new features with the CSS Working Group directly. What this means is that Sass can be a ground for experimentation, and if something is portable to CSS, it might get standardised by the W3C.
CSS Custom Properties (aka CSS variables) are being implemented by browser vendors as we speak. I hope we can see selector nesting and mixins standardised at some point.
Sass 3.3 was recently released. With all the great features bundled in this new version, I think it’ll be an even bigger game changer in 2014.
Thanks to the community who voted for Sass! And most of all, a massive thank you to Hampton, Nathan and Chris. Guys, this award is yours!
I wore a tie to collect the award. That’s how far I’d go for Sass.
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