As most readers probably know, or can easily imagine, LESS is not the only style sheet preprocessor language out there. As a matter of fact, it was released more than two years after Systematically Awesome Style Sheets (Sass), also known as SCSS, which had served the exact same purpose since 2007. Sass can offer basically the same set of features as LESS and came out first, so why shouldn't it be used instead?
Truth be told, no one will ever get fired for picking Sass or other viable alternatives, such as Stylus and Switch CSS, instead of LESS. We're free to choose the style sheet preprocessor we like the most, as long as we can use it without issues, meaning that our development framework--Visual Studio, ...
