I actually love sass the way it is currently, what benefits does this new syntax have for previous users of sass? I see how this new syntax could maybe help new users since it is more aligned with regular css. What I am most interested in is support for sass to minimize duplicated sass/css. Sass is great because it allows for semantic css styling where you include mixins of common css, but that increases the size of the css. What would be great if sass allows us to write semantically, but when you deploy, it should minimize the css.
Three months ago I wrote a little piece of rant about Less vs. Sass here (<a href="https://riobard.com/blog/2009-12-18-less-vs-sass/" rel="nofollow">https://riobard.com/blog/2009-12-18-less-vs-sass/</a>). The day after I posted it, Nathan Weizenbaum (author of Sass) emailed me saying those tiny problems will be fixed. Now they delivered it. Time to give it another try!