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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is great; we tried to get hierarchical CSS (and variables, and mixins) done in 2011, in the same era as we took our first crack at Promises and async/await and classes and arrow functions.
You can quibble a lot over how fast is "too fast" for things to move through standards bodies, but you can't look at CSS's evolutionary rate -- gated by full consensus, in which Apple has a veto -- and think "oh, yes, this is going to plan":
https://buttondown.email/cascade/archive/007-css-is-not-a-natural-disaster/