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The thing i hate about CSS is how unstructured it can be. You just sorta list whatever you want and it's suddenly a style sheet. No headers, no footers, no must includes.... DO I use quotes around this value? Do I not? Does white space matter? It's the most intimidating language I've ever used just because it feels so open and uncontrolled and nonsensical... I always thought CSS was some leftover abomination from the days of Netscape.

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LESS is more how CSS should look like for styling. It's amazing we don't have embedding of rules yet.

parent {

   child {

    }

}

is just so much more development friendly than

parent {

}

parent child {

}

The CSS WG earlier this year resolved to take on a spec defining this, and there's implementer interest, so it's highly likely to happen.

(This is https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2701 .)

Agreed, and hoping that scss or less influences future versions of css!

I believe the why is that as soon as you have any invalid syntax everything else is ignored. I forget the level of scope, I think it's until the next complete rule?

with PostCSS and the postcss-nested you can nest loads of stuff like mediaqueries, which makes it bearable IMHO.

Plus the error handling is abysmal.

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