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fourspace on Jan 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

This is pretty cool.

That said, a Bootstrap generator that generates LESS, which in turn generates CSS? Seems overengineered. Almost all of these variables are in variables.less anyway. I'd hope that anyone setting up Bootstrap has the skills to edit this one file.

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/lib/variabl...

politician on Jan 13, 2012 [–]

Isn't that a bit like saying your refactoring IDE which generates some high-level language which in turn generates machine code is over-engineered?

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