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CSS has been growing a lot of "super powers" lately, that used to require a pre-processor. Custom properties (variables), nesting,
calc, andcolor-mixused to be things we'd reach for a preprocessor for, but can now be done 100% in pure CSS. And generally, the CSS based versions are better than their old preprocessor counterparts.calccan mix units, so you can easily do things likecalc(100% - 1rem)to subtract a rem from 100% of the parent container. Can't do that in Sass. Custom properties can be set by Javascript, or by media queries, and follow CSS scoping rules. Thats how I handle light/dark mode on my site.