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Discussion on: Is Sass worth learning in 2020?

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Jeremy Morgan

I'm somewhat out of the loop with frontend development, it's been about 3 years since I did anything with SASS. So take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Is SASS worth learning in 2020? I agree with you that it is, so many organizations are using it. PostCSS might be gaining steam but there's a lot of SASS out there.

Another reason to learn it is simply stepping outside the "CSS" pattern itself. Just dumping a bunch of CSS into a file (or multiple files) is fine, but not scaleable. Learning how to think about styling at a larger scale is valuable, even if the pattern isn't the latest and greatest thing.

When I made the jump into SASS I started thinking of CSS the same way I think of "real" software (I'm primarily a backend developer). SASS is the way to put real engineering into your styling. That alone makes it worth learning.