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Compass vs Stylus: What are the differences?
Compass: A Stylesheet Authoring Environment that makes your website design simpler to implement and easier to maintain. The compass core framework is a design-agnostic framework that provides common code that would otherwise be duplicated across other frameworks and extensions; Stylus: Expressive, robust, feature-rich CSS language built for nodejs. Stylus is a revolutionary new language, providing an efficient, dynamic, and expressive way to generate CSS. Supporting both an indented syntax and regular CSS style.
Compass and Stylus can be primarily classified as "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" tools.
"No vendor prefix CSS pain" is the top reason why over 8 developers like Compass, while over 65 developers mention "Simple" as the leading cause for choosing Stylus.
Compass is an open source tool with 6.91K GitHub stars and 1.23K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Compass's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Compass has a broader approval, being mentioned in 88 company stacks & 42 developers stacks; compared to Stylus, which is listed in 69 company stacks and 45 developer stacks.
Originally, I was going to start using Sass with Parcel, but then I learned about Stylus, which looked interesting because it can get the property values of something directly instead of through variables, and PostCSS, which looked interesting because you can customize your Pre/Post-processing. Which tool would you recommend?
Pros of Compass
- No vendor prefix CSS pain9
- Mixins1
- Variables1
- Compass sprites1
Pros of Stylus
- Simple69
- Indented syntax54
- Efficient38
- Built for node.js33
- Open source32
- Expressive24
- Maintainable21
- Feature-rich17
- Better than CS13
- Variables6
- Functions5
- @extend directive3
- Contempt for curly brackets2
- Very clean2
- Mixins2
- Is Easy2
- No colons, semi-colons or even curly braces2
- Its unique1
- Dynamic selectors1
- Scriptable1
- Easy Efficiently1
- Transparent1
- Supports orthogonal architecture1