I'm a PHP developer and use HAML and SASS in PHP projects.
Why? Because to build a website with these tools speeds up my development time.
You cannot forget anymore a </b> closure. You can forget all the 'echo' calls. You can forget all that horrible "nested" css rules with tons of repetition. You can forget all that <?php ?> tags everywhere around the HTML code.
Yes the cost to pay for this is ruby. Well, it took me about 20/30 minutes to setup a ruby environment with RVM ( https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/ ).
Now my PHP project are cleaner, easier to mantain, only with a little "trick": some really good Ruby tools...
At the end, I think that the advantages are worth the costs...
This is a "templated" way to do so in wordpress projects... Why not? ^^
Why? Because to build a website with these tools speeds up my development time. You cannot forget anymore a </b> closure. You can forget all the 'echo' calls. You can forget all that horrible "nested" css rules with tons of repetition. You can forget all that <?php ?> tags everywhere around the HTML code. Yes the cost to pay for this is ruby. Well, it took me about 20/30 minutes to setup a ruby environment with RVM ( https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/ ).
Now my PHP project are cleaner, easier to mantain, only with a little "trick": some really good Ruby tools... At the end, I think that the advantages are worth the costs...
This is a "templated" way to do so in wordpress projects... Why not? ^^