--- title: LibSass introduction: > We want everyone to enjoy Sass, no matter what language they use. Sass was originally written in Ruby. LibSass is a C/C++ port of the Sass engine. The point is to be simple, faster, and easy to integrate. Find out more about the project over at [GitHub](http://github.com/sass/libsass). --- :markdown ## Wrappers LibSass is just a library. To run the code locally (i.e. to compile your stylesheets), you need an implementer, or "wrapper". There are a number of other wrappers for LibSass. We encourage you to write your own wrapper --- the whole point of LibSass is that we want to bring Sass to many other languages, not just Ruby! Below are the LibSass wrappers that we're currently aware of. Sometimes there are multiple wrappers per language – in those cases, we put the most recently-updated wrapper first. %ul.slides %li#sassc :markdown ### Sass C [SassC](https://github.com/sass/sassc) (get it?) is a wrapper written in C. To run the compiler on your local machine, you need to build SassC. To build SassC, you must have either a local copy of the LibSass source or it must be installed into your system. For development, please use the source version. You must then setup an environment variable pointing to the LibSass folder, for example: = partial 'code-snippets/libsass-setup' :markdown The executable will be in the bin folder. To run it, simply try something like: = partial 'code-snippets/libsass-execute' %li#crystal :markdown ### Crystal [sass.cr](https://github.com/straight-shoota/sass.cr) is a LibSass wrapper for the [Crystal programming language](https://crystal-lang.org/). %li#go :markdown ### Go [go-libsass](https://github.com/wellington/go-libsass) has the most active GoLang wrapper. [gosass](https://github.com/moovweb/gosass) is another LibSass wrapper. [Wellington](http://getwt.io/) is an extension to LibSass that adds spriting. It is available on brew: `brew install wellington` [C6](https://github.com/c9s/c6) is a Sass 3.2 compatible implementation written in pure GoLang that aims to extend Sass. [wellington/sass](https://github.com/wellington/sass) is an in-progress pure Go Sass lexer, parser, and compiler. %li#java :markdown ### Java There is one Java wrapper --- [jsass](https://github.com/bit3/jsass). There is also a plugin for Maven --- [LibSass Maven plugin](https://github.com/warmuuh/libsass-maven-plugin). %li#javascript :markdown ### JavaScript The [sass.js](https://github.com/medialize/sass.js) project makes LibSass available as pure JavaScript. There's a way to [test it in the browser](http://medialize.github.io/playground.sass.js/), too. %li#lua :markdown ### Lua The Lua wrapper is found at [lua-sass](https://github.com/craigbarnes/lua-sass). %li#net :markdown ### .NET [libsass-net](https://github.com/darrenkopp/libsass-net) is updated regularly, and is probably the best bet. There's also [NSass](https://github.com/TBAPI-0KA/NSass), although it hasn't been updated in a while. %li#node :markdown ### Node The [node-sass](https://github.com/sass/node-sass) project has proven to be popular, and we've taken it into the main Sass GitHub repo. Check out its package page [here](https://www.npmjs.org/package/node-sass), and [there's a dedicated twitter account](https://twitter.com/nodesass) for updates. %li#perl :markdown ### Perl The [CSS::Sass](https://github.com/sass/perl-libsass) project is updated regularly. There's the [Text-Sass-XS](https://github.com/ysasaki/Text-Sass-XS) project, too, although it hasn't been updated in a while. %li#php :markdown ### PHP The [SassPHP](https://github.com/sensational/sassphp) project is an updated fork of an [older PHP version](https://github.com/jamierumbelow/sassphp). %li#python :markdown ### Python There are two Python projects that are updated regularly. The [libsass-python](https://github.com/dahlia/libsass-python) project (there are more details on [its own website](http://hongminhee.org/libsass-python/)) and the [python-scss](https://github.com/pistolero/python-scss) project. Two other Python projects, [pylibsass](https://github.com/rsenk330/pylibsass) and [SassPython](https://github.com/marianoguerra/SassPython), haven't been updated in a while. %li#ruby :markdown ### Ruby LibSass has also been ported back into Ruby for the [sassc-ruby](https://github.com/sass/sassc-ruby) project. %li#rust :markdown ### Rust The [`sass_rs`](https://github.com/compass-rs/sass-rs) crate is a LibSass wrapper and is updated regularly. %li#scala :markdown ### Scala The only Scala project, [Sass-Scala](https://github.com/kkung/Sass-Scala), hasn't been updated in a couple of years. %h2 About LibSass :markdown This project is the brainchild of [Hampton Catlin](http://twitter.com/hcatlin), the original creator of Sass, and is sponsored by [Moovweb](http://moovweb.com/). [Aaron Leung](http://github.com/akhleung) from Moovweb is the primary developer. %figure = image_tag 'logos/libsass.png', alt: 'LibSass logo' - content_for :navigation do %h3 Wrappers %ul.sl-c-list.sl-c-list--navigation.anchors %li.sl-c-list--navigation__item= link_to 'SassC', '#sassc' %li.sl-c-list--navigation__item= link_to 'Crystal', '#crystal' %li.sl-c-list--navigation__item= link_to 'Go', '#go' %li.sl-c-list--navigation__item= link_to 'Java', '#java' %li.sl-c-list--navigation__item= link_to 'JavaScript', '#javascript' %li.sl-c-list--navigation__item= link_to 'Lua', '#lua' %li.sl-c-list--navigation__item= link_to '.NET', '#net' %li.sl-c-list--navigation__item= link_to 'Node', '#node' %li.sl-c-list--navigation__item= link_to 'Perl', '#perl' %li.sl-c-list--navigation__item= link_to 'PHP', '#php' %li.sl-c-list--navigation__item= link_to 'Python', '#python' %li.sl-c-list--navigation__item= link_to 'Ruby', '#ruby' %li.sl-c-list--navigation__item= link_to 'Scala', '#scala' - content_for :complementary do %h3 Resources %ul - for project in data.libsass.resources %li = link_to project.name, project.url — = project.description