Announcing Dart Sass

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Natalie Weizenbaum

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Oct 31, 2016, 5:31:54 PM10/31/16

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Hi everyone,

Over the past six months I've been working on an entirely new implementation of Sass, and today I released Dart Sass 1.0.0-alpha.1.

You can read the public announcement for full details, but the short version is this: Dart Sass aims to be much faster than the original Ruby implementation, while also being much quicker to develop than LibSass, which is written in C++. It can also be compiled to JavaScript, and my goal is for it to be as easy as possible to drop in to existing JavaScript build systems both internally and externally. I'll continue maintaining Ruby Sass for the next year, but eventually Dart Sass will take its place as the reference implementation of the language.

If anyone's interested in helping out, I'd love more contributors. Sass is widely-used, and soon enough Dart Sass will be the most advanced implementation around. Even a small contribution will make many users' lives better. The project is still young, so there's plenty of work of all sorts to do, and I'll be happy to help out anyone who's interested in giving it a try.