On: Help pick a syntax for CSS nesting

[amichal]

The cat is out of the bag but, one fear i have is how easy it is to abuse nested selectors this way. When I first was exposed to SCSS I also started seeing selectors like `.helpPage .faqSection .sidebar ul li` in lots of codebases I touched because it seems so neat and tidy in SCSS and made it easy to make that CMS generated list look just the way you want it to without injecting local class= attributes. Then 6 months later you want to restructure your containers and all your magic selectors work differently. Deep nesting is a trap those of us who have tried to maintain SCSS eventually learn and we use all sorts of naming conventions (e.g. BEM) to avoid it but for beginners having it there without tooling will probably mean we see even more of it in the wild at first.

Edit: I still voted for `@nest` -- CCS is a pretty complex language for sure but I think it's terse expressiveness is why it's been successful.

[LocalPCGuy → amichal]

I agree in regards to people abusing selectors, but I see that kind of code even without nesting. People don't understand (and IMO don't bother to learn) CSS specificity. Then they wonder why their CSS falls over.