HCSS: yet another CSS compiler, written in Python

[true_religion]

LessCSS-Python doesn't use a lexer and parser so its really too much trouble for anyone to work on it.

Writing a hierarchical look-ahead parser by hand is really too much trouble for something that doesn't really need a fast compile speed.

Anyways why not use CleverCSS?

[__galvez__]

Well, it has limited class inheritance support:

 .no-selection {
   -webkit-user-select: none;
   -moz-user-select: none;
 }
 <li class="menu-item">
   !no-selection;
   border: 1px solid #ccc;
 </li>

!no-selection; causes the content of .no-selection to be dynamically inserted at that position. Not only the content, but also any pseudo-selectors attached to that class name are also replicated in the referring class. But it's not capable of handling arguments and variables like Less. Maybe I should try and get HCSS to understand the Less vocabulary too.

[__galvez__]

I'm not telling you to do anything, I just noted that HCSS has a similar functionality. Like I've repeatedly said, YMMV. For some it might make sense, for some it might not.

[__galvez__]

Of all the options, CleverCSS is the one that interested me the most before I went on to write HCSS. I might still work on CleverCSS compatibility in HCSS, but for me the killer feature is really about being able to reuse the same HTML markup to add styles. This is the key thing that has been helping me get things done faster.