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Why Compass?

TL;DR: I definitevely don't have anything against Bourbon, and we can actually use it with Compass (Bourbon for most CSS3 and Compass for utilities, spriting, compilation & other functions). But not using Compass is missing a big advantage Sass has over LESS.

First, why NOT Compass

  • Doesn't work with libsass (yet — I read they plan on supporting libsass, probably later this year)
  • needs Ruby (for now), and installs the chunky_png gem
  • Slow compilation (because parsing image sizes, assembling sprites… actually takes time)