# Less Reviews **Vendor:** Less **Category:** [Other Development Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-development) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 19 ## About Less Less is a CSS pre-processor. ## Less Reviews ### 1. Clean, fast CSS preprocessing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jared E. | Full Stack Web Application Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Less?** I love the flexibility of LESS. Mixins and Variables make writing CSS painless and so much more scalable for the large-scale applications we create. We're able to use one folder of LESS files, with variables for brand colors, font weights, and things like light and dark mode, and shared amongst several different products, making it super easy to update our products from one place. Nesting CSS rules makes writing CSS so much cleaner, too. **What do you dislike about Less?** It'd be great to have browser support for native LESS files, but we use files watchers as part of our development process anyway, so compiling minified CSS is an automatic process. **Recommendations to others considering Less:** If you want to write clean CSS, supporting all the major browser prefixes and shims, then LESS is a great solution **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating a unified UI across several different products and using mixins to generate consistent styles across variations like buttons gives us peace of mind that all our products will look and behave consistently while writing less LESS. ### 2. My experience using less **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rishabh M. | Software Development Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Less?** Less has incorporated the coding base to css. We have list of operators, support for cross-browser compatibility and of course, it makes coding faster. **What do you dislike about Less?** Tight coupling requires more effort to reuse or test dependent modules. You have to invest some time to get familiar with using Less. **Recommendations to others considering Less:** Yes, you can definitely use it to make your coding life a tad easier, but be prepared to invest some time in it. **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** Less has been used in my current organization extensively because of its amazing features. It has made the css code lot more reusable. ### 3. Great Sass alternative that's made it difficult to go back to CSS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taylor T. | Designer/developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Less?** Nested styles are by far the biggest game-changer for my styling use cases. The ability to easily nest multiple objects into one parent identifier has made my code infinitely more readable. The execution is quite intuitive, and now reading vanilla CSS makes me cringe! Mixins have also come in handy for making shortcuts in my code. **What do you dislike about Less?** I honestly can't say I have encountered any significant downsides to using Less. I think their website and documentation's presentation could be improved. **Recommendations to others considering Less:** If you're using CSS, switching to Less should be a no-brainer! **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** The biggest problem that Less solves is making CSS code far more abridged and readable. You no longer have to write out specific styling cases for every class that falls under a parent if you want them to behave the same way. Now you can roll them all up to one identifier! ### 4. A very powerful styling language **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Less?** The ability to use complex logic to apply styles and share styles among components **What do you dislike about Less?** The only con I see is the need to compile it after changes **Recommendations to others considering Less:** A great tool, use it **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having lots of similar styling attributes which in CSS look like a mess, with LESS it is much easier to have complex structured styles that share styling attributes in a very readable and minified way ### 5. Easy to Learn but limited Community Support **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Less?** Easy to learn as JavaScript based stylesheet preprocessor. As most of the web designers/developers community has JavaScript it is very easy learn and understand the syntax. **What do you dislike about Less?** Though LESS is easy to learn. Industry prefers Sass over Less because we have plenty of resources are available for support, tutorials and troubleshooting for Sass. **Recommendations to others considering Less:** Good to use if you have good working experiences with Less. If you are looking for overall best CSS preprocessor, I would suggest Sass over Less. If you have excell in Less and delivered enterprise level projects powered by Less and good grasp on Less syntaxes, then you can leverage full specifications/features of Less. Bootstrap was built on Less later switch to Sass. **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to install and integrated with projects. ### 6. Awesome Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankit K. | Software Associate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Less?** less is quite faster than others. it is light weight and less memory consumable. **What do you dislike about Less?** it is difficult to debug this when we are working on it. **Recommendations to others considering Less:** I would like to recommend less to others because i found this quite easy to use, easily installable, easily usable, light weight, low memory use, removed redundancy from css code **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** newbies whom are just knowledgeable of css faced some difficulty as less is like any other programming language ### 7. More for Less **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathon L. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Less?** Easy way to organize styles. I like the hierarchical capabilities and use of variables to make styles more reusable. **What do you dislike about Less?** Debugging styles can be a little harder on compiled code **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to reuse styles ### 8. Faster and esier and less codes are simple and well organized as compared to CSS. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Less?** Cleaner structure due to nesting of code **What do you dislike about Less?** It produces very large css files and debugging is harder **Recommendations to others considering Less:** Use this and you will see the benefits **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am writing cleaner code and easily understandable code and writing reusable code using less ### 9. Been using Less less and less **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Less?** It specifies a value in single place which can be used throughout the style sheet. **What do you dislike about Less?** Not much that I dislike. But I think Sass is much better. **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** For one I prefer sass; lists, conditionals and sass-syntax ### 10. not all the time **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Less?** in general all is good nothing special that i like **What do you dislike about Less?** all your features are great nothing to mention here **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** all problems that can be solved with Less are solved ### 11. Very good experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Less?** Easy to build product review and researching new software. **What do you dislike about Less?** May be more features like animation should be included. **Recommendations to others considering Less:** Will recommend **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problem related to data visualization ### 12. Less is very comfortable way to maintain styles **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Less?** I like the way we write styles based on the parent child relationship. And with Mixins, it is easy to generate styles **What do you dislike about Less?** There is nothing to dislike. Better way to write styles **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** can write, maintain and modify the styles in a better way. I like the way we write styles based on the parent child relationship. And with Mixins, it is easy to generate styles ### 13. Less makes setup easy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manuel A. | Full-stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Less?** Very detailed documentation and a very active community and easy to find help or previous examples **What do you dislike about Less?** Uses @ to declare variables, but in CSS, @ already has meaning (it's used to declare @media queries and @keyframes) which can cause confusion **Recommendations to others considering Less:** The fact it is so similar to Sass makes it difficult to advocate when Sass is more widely used, actively developed, and feature-rich **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** generate less css code, easier and faster ### 14. I created html templates for more than 3 years that were build with the help of Less **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** roma k. | Frontend Web Developer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Less?** - declaring variables after using them - embed functions like fade, multiply, lightness, percentage etc. - programming language logic **What do you dislike about Less?** - that it doesnt have default variables - if-statements - write mixins or loop on an array - to use calc in less i had to use this syntax calc(~'1px + 2px'). **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** problems: - structure of css files - mess in css files benefits compare to css - Better organization - variables - functions - mixins - nesting - and cleaner code ### 15. My Review for Less **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Less?** The open source language and the similarity to others like SCSS. It's easy to learn and it's so easy to add to our projects. **What do you dislike about Less?** It's similar to SCSS and the less changes to this language. I think that it need more diferences between this to improve. **Recommendations to others considering Less:** The usability. **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** The cascade problems with CSS and the similar problems with this language. Also, the implementation in real time. ### 16. Without issues **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Less?** Its ease of use, but my preferred feature is to be able to order CSS (just as with SASS). **What do you dislike about Less?** SASS is more widely used causing LESS to be `less` used. In general, is somewhat similar to SASS. **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping the code clean and shorter by extending css selectors and nesting. ### 17. Great tool for increasing productivity when writing lots CSS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mateusz P. | Product & Tech Manager, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Less?** Less is a great tool wether you write a lot of CSS in one project or when you are trying to share the css codebase between many projects. It makes development faster. It's easy to read and understand Forces developers to write code readable. **What do you dislike about Less?** You need to learn new technology, which is "not essential" - meaning, that CSS is good and LESS is just a syntactic sugar. Need to involve preprocessors in the building process. **Recommendations to others considering Less:** Before deciding for Less check other similar products. They are all very similar, but it depends on taste wether you like them or not. **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were writing our own css framework and we needed something to keep to codebase clean. It also helped us to "compile" only parts of the code in the particular projects ### 18. Allows You to Easily Style Your Apps **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin R. | Application Support Specialist, Non-Profit Organization Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Less?** I love that you can declare global variables in the .less file. This reduces your amount of code, which we all know, reduces the number of code errors. **What do you dislike about Less?** Sometimes it is a hassle to install the compiler unless you use something like Visual Studios that offers it as a plugin. **Recommendations to others considering Less:** Use this! It makes styling much easier and it doesn't take too long to learn. **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** The coding business is always striving to write less but more useful code. Less helps do this very easily. ### 19. Makes life easy with CSS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajani M. | Sr database administrator , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Less?** you just need to chnage the styles in one single place and it effects the whole website. so Cool..... **What do you dislike about Less?** it should be more flexible and loosley coupled **Recommendations to others considering Less:** understanding the base structure is very important. **What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before we used to change the styles in multiple files to make a single element style to work,. Now its very easy. just change it in one place and BOOM. 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