Specializing yourself into a corner

Scott takes a look at his workflow and wonders whether his SASS/Compass only plugins are a bad thing for the community. I'm on the other side, I think you should build amazing things with the tools that best allow you to achieve your goals, then open that up for people to improve/copy in other areas

I'm a Sass addict. I will be the first to admit it and I can't imagine myself designing anything web related without Sass and Compass. These tools are awesome and make my life easy but they fragment the once blissfully uniform front end development landscape. Before, we had just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript but now those languages are fragmented into Sass, Stylus, LESS, CoffeeScript as well as various code management tools like Compass and Bower.

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