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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rishabh M.

Software Development Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/26/2021

"My experience using less"

4.5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Taylor T.

Designer/developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/10/2021

"Great Sass alternative that's made it difficult to go back to CSS"

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Less:

If you're using CSS, switching to Less should be a no-brainer! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/15/2021

"A very powerful styling language"

5/5

What do you like best about Less?

The ability to use complex logic to apply styles and share styles among components Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Less?

The only con I see is the need to compile it after changes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Less:

A great tool, use it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in E-Learning

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/4/2021

"Easy to Learn but limited Community Support"

2/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Less solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy to install and integrated with projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ankit K.

Software Associate

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/29/2021

"Awesome Experience"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Less?

less is quite faster than others. it is light weight and less memory consumable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Less?

it is difficult to debug this when we are working on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jonathon L.

Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/26/2021

"More for Less"

4.5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Less?

Debugging styles can be a little harder on compiled code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/27/2021

"Faster and easier and less code is simple and well organized compared to CSS."

5/5

What do you like best about Less?

Cleaner structure due to nesting of code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Less?

It produces very large CSS files and debugging is harder Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Real Estate

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/26/2021

"Been using Less less and less"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Less?

It specifies a value in single place which can be used throughout the style sheet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Less?

Not much that I dislike. But I think Sass is much better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/26/2021

"not all the time"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Less?

in general all is good nothing special that i like Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Less?

all your features are great nothing to mention here Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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