sassc-ruby VS Sass

And I don't know if this is the same issue (it seems to be) but the solution suggested there that got a lot of thumbs-ups didn't work for me.

Generated make files now properly set the platform architecture when running on Linux/aarch64 and Apple's M1 family of CPUs. This allows sassc and other non-extension C-based gems to build and install properly. (sass/sassc-ruby#231, #7132, #7133)

This sprockets setup has always worked great, but lately some serious bit-rot has set in. Over the last few years, the Sass Team has deprecated both its original ruby-based version of sass, and more recently, the libsass/sassc library in favor of dart-sass. As of this writing, I could not find any sprockets compatible versions of dart-sass. Further, as time marches on, the sassc gem is beginning to accumulate some pretty nasty bugs and inefficiencies. With no fixes on the horizon, it's time to move on.

SASS(.scss) [ https://sass-lang.com ]

Traditionally CSS lacked features such as variables, nesting, mixins, and functions. This was frustrating for Developers as it often led to CSS quickly becoming complex and cumbersome. In an attempt to make code easier and less repetitive CSS pre-processors were born. You would write CSS in the format the pre-processor understood and, at build time, you'd have some nice CSS. The most common pre-processors these days are Sass, Less, and Stylus. Any examples I give going forward will be about Sass as that's what I'm most familiar with.

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, and is a scripting language used to style web pages. SCSS stands for Syntactically Awesome Style Sheet, and is a superset of CSS. You can think of SCSS as the more advanced version of CSS, which comes with several features that CSS does not support, such as the SCSS nested syntax, as shown below.

Scss

In the past, you’d need to rely on pre-processors such as SaSS or Less, but not anymore… Native CSS nesting has landed on all major modern browsers.

Sass is also a css preprocessor. Op is likely confused

sass -> An improvement over CSS. It provides nice features for managing CSS. good for mid-sized or even larger projects.

Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets) - A CSS preprocessor that simplifies and enhances your CSS workflow. Website: https://sass-lang.com/

Personally, my preference is Sass: I find that the mixins, partials, and operators are hugely useful when it comes to creating re-usable snippets of code for a design system. And, since it’s “just” a pre-processor and not a framework, it’s not opinionated in a design sense and there’s no default values (colors, spacing values, etc.) that will need to be overwritten.

Preprocessors: SSGs leverage preprocessors to streamline the development process. Preprocessors like SASS for CSS or Babel for JavaScript offer additional features and simplify code development.