Less

Less is an actively used stylesheet language created in 2009. Less (sometimes stylized as LESS) is a dynamic style sheet language that can be compiled into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and run on the client side or server side. Designed by Alexis Sellier, Less is influenced by Sass and has influenced the newer "SCSS" syntax of Sass, which adapted its CSS-like block formatting syntax. Less is open source. Read more on Wikipedia...

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• Less ranks in the top 10% of languages
• the Less website
• the Less wikipedia page
• Less first appeared in 2009
• file extensions for Less include less
• See also: javascript, sass, css, ruby, stylus
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Example code from Linguist:

@blue: #3bbfce;
@margin: 16px;

.content-navigation {
  border-color: @blue;
  color:
    darken(@blue, 9%);
}

.border {
  padding: @margin / 2;
  margin: @margin / 2;
  border-color: @blue;
}

Example code from Wikipedia:

#header {
  color: #333333;
  border-left: 1px;
  border-right: 3px;
}
#footer {
  color: #114411;
  border-color: #7d2717;
}

Last updated August 22nd, 2019