New features in SASS 3.3 (a talk by SASS-creator Chris Eppstein)

A very interesting conference talk by Chris Eppstein, creator of SASS itself, showing some of the new features in SASS 3.3:

• ability to move the parent selector “&” BEHIND a selector, which allows totally different nesting
• native debugging with Chrome’s DevTools
• strings as a variable’s content
• some interesting stuff taken from real programming lenguages, like string length getter function and string manipulation (capitalize, convert-to-lowercase, camel-casing etc.)
• arrays / maps (and according foreach functions)
• “meta scripting”: check if something exists
• inject into parents
• override/reset @media rules
• changes in the scopes of variables

Side-note: PHP guys, have a look into How to use SASS in Laravel (with pure PHP) if you like. The used SASS compiler currently (March 2013) supports SASS 3.2, but 3.3 is in the making.