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What makes this any better than SASS or LESS?

Sounds like you didn't read my post or the README. Check it out. This is intended to work with things like SASS & LESS. There's a lot more to CSS than buzzwords :)

You're right, I did miss that. I saw nested tags and assumed this is another CSS compiler (or whatever you'd like to call them).

I guess you could say this is like Doxygen for CSS?

> Doxygen for CSS

That's my understanding; a good analogy.

I was also confused at first, and thought that this guy just re-invented LESS.

I think the source of confusion is that he calls his project "Knyle Style Sheets," whereas a more accurate name would be "Knyle markup for Preprocessed Style Sheets" (or Kml*SS).

The comment syntax works great with regular CSS as well. It's a style of writing CSS. SASS/SCSS/LESS are methods for generating CSS.

I think that there's a pretty big short-sighted buzzword obsessed culture associated with CSS. We need to realize that "CSS" is a lot like "Scripting Language". There are many styles of writing scripting languages, many scripting languages, and many implementations of scripting languages. It doesn't take more than 15 seconds to read one sentence and understand what it means. Let's look past the name.

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