Preprocessing CSS

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On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 18:47:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 05/24/2016 02:03 PM, Thiez wrote:
>> Does the
>> experience help someone getting a job in the industry?
>
> Probably not, again with the same caveat. I speculate 
> experience with one of the other CSS scripting engines would 
> also not be very helpful in landing a job as a software 
> engineer.

Not at a big company, but in small companies with maybe three 
engineers, broad skillsets are very much in demand.  Even if 
you're nominally a backend engineer, you can't say, "Sorry, I 
just don't *do* CSS."

On my second-last contract there were about two engineers on the 
project at any time, and I felt like I wrote nearly as much 
JavaScript and (SASS) CSS as Python.

Pulling Ruby in as a dependency for dlang.org would be sucky, but 
anything other than SASS or LESS (or something syntax compatible) 
is going to turn away a lot of contributors.  A homebrew macro 
system would make most run screaming, no matter how easy it is to 
learn.